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deists
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Included founding fathers such as jefferson and franklin
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Unitarianism stressed
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reason and conscience
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Universalists believed that
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everyone can be saved
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which of the following religous movements arising in the 19th century attracted mainly poor people?
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Universalism
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camp meetings and circuit riders appealed most to
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frontier people
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African americans found the methodist and baptist churches especially attractive because of their
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belief in salvatioin for all
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Camp meetings often gave woman an opportunity to
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show off their bible knowledge
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Joseph Smith
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found golden plates whose etchings became the book of mormon
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Through the 1830's and early 1840's Mormons
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generated hostility from non-mormons
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The rise of romanticism indicated
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recognition of the limits of science and reason
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all of the following are true of the transcendentalists except that they
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rejected romanticism due to their intellectual faith in reason
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in response to the mexican war thoreau
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refused to pay his poll tax
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the literary productions of the 1850's
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were of extraordinary quality
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the poet walt whitmann
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disturbed some readers with his sexual themes
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by the 1840's newspapers
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skyrocketed in circulation
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in 1840 american leteracy rates
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were the highest in the western world
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by 1840 most colleges
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were affiliated with churches
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the american temperance union lost many members in 1836 when it
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called for abstinence from all alcoholic beverages
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Auburn new york in 1816 became the site of an effort to establish a modela
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penitentiary
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The cult of domesticity was the idea that
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a womans place is in the home
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the seneca falls convention
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demanded equal rights for women
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most of the utopian communities of the early 19th century
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quickly became failures
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as president william henry harrison
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died after only a month in office
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president tyler infuriated henry clay by vetoing his bill in support of
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a new national bank
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which leader is described as a president without a party
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John Tyler
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the creole incident
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Involved the british freeing american slaves after they mutinied and escaped
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the webster ashburton treaty of 1842 settled a us british dispute over
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boundry lines
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when editor john L o'sullivan wrote of manifest destiny he meant that american west word expansion
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was sanctioned by god
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the plains indians encountered by americans migrating westward
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were highly dependent on horses and buffalo
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