Question 1

Dorothea Lynde Dix directed her reform efforts at

Accepted Answer

A)  insane asylums. 
B)  public education. 
C)  women's rights. 
D)  slavery. 
E)  temperance. 
A)  insane asylums. 
B)  public education. 
C)  women's rights. 
D)  slavery. 
E)  temperance.

Question 2

The "cult of domesticity" was the idea that

Accepted Answer

A)  women deserved education. 
B)  professions should be open to women. 
C)  romantic love was the basis of successful marriage. 
D)  large families were beneficial. 
E)  a woman's place is in the home. 
A)  women deserved education. 
B)  professions should be open to women. 
C)  romantic love was the basis of successful marriage. 
D)  large families were beneficial. 
E)  a woman's place is in the home.

Question 3

Frederick Douglass

Accepted Answer

A)  was the founder of the Underground Railroad. 
B)  became a notable black preacher. 
C)  wrote a famous account of his life as a slave. 
D)  was captured in the North and returned to slavery. 
E)  helped abolish slavery in the British West Indies. 
A)  was the founder of the Underground Railroad. 
B)  became a notable black preacher. 
C)  wrote a famous account of his life as a slave. 
D)  was captured in the North and returned to slavery. 
E)  helped abolish slavery in the British West Indies.

Question 4

Match each description with the item below.
-Susan
B. Anthony

Accepted Answer

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada 
A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

Question 5

The "cult of domesticity" banned women from joining organized religious denominations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

William Lloyd Garrison published a radical anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following is true of the Seneca Falls Convention?

Accepted Answer

A)  It celebrated the cult of domesticity. 
B)  It was a meeting of women's rights activists. 
C)  It showed the mass appeal of temperance. 
D)  It reflected female dominance of the abolitionist movement. 
E)  It brought immediate improvements in women's lives. 
A)  It celebrated the cult of domesticity. 
B)  It was a meeting of women's rights activists. 
C)  It showed the mass appeal of temperance. 
D)  It reflected female dominance of the abolitionist movement. 
E)  It brought immediate improvements in women's lives.

Question 8

What was Brook Farm?

Accepted Answer

A)  an attempt at cooperative living founded by transcendentalists that became America's first secular utopian community 
B)  a church founded by Mormons with the purpose of increasing dialogue between all Christian denominations 
C)  a community that practiced "complex marriage" and promoted free sex and birth control access 
D)  a home for escaped slaves founded by free blacks along the Underground Railroad to Canada 
E)  a long-lasting Quaker community that practiced strict celibacy and worshipped through actions such as shrieking and stamping their feet 
A)  an attempt at cooperative living founded by transcendentalists that became America's first secular utopian community 
B)  a church founded by Mormons with the purpose of increasing dialogue between all Christian denominations 
C)  a community that practiced "complex marriage" and promoted free sex and birth control access 
D)  a home for escaped slaves founded by free blacks along the Underground Railroad to Canada 
E)  a long-lasting Quaker community that practiced strict celibacy and worshipped through actions such as shrieking and stamping their feet

Question 9

Members of the Shaker community

Accepted Answer

A)  believed that Jesus Christ had returned to Earth in the 1820s. 
B)  practiced free love and polygamy. 
C)  were not permitted to leave after their "initiation." 
D)  practiced celibacy and owned everything in common. 
E)  increased their numbers by having large families. 
A)  believed that Jesus Christ had returned to Earth in the 1820s. 
B)  practiced free love and polygamy. 
C)  were not permitted to leave after their "initiation." 
D)  practiced celibacy and owned everything in common. 
E)  increased their numbers by having large families.

Question 10

For all their differences, the variety of reform movements that arose in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century had what in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  a commitment to abolitionism 
B)  an absence of female membership and involvement 
C)  a prohibition against black participation 
D)  an impulse to perfect people and society 
E)  the rejection of the idea that America had a divine mission 
A)  a commitment to abolitionism 
B)  an absence of female membership and involvement 
C)  a prohibition against black participation 
D)  an impulse to perfect people and society 
E)  the rejection of the idea that America had a divine mission

Question 11

Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  The quality of a public education was better than that of private schools in most cities at the time. 
B)  The children of the working poor would be guaranteed to no longer need to labor in factories or do farmwork. 
C)  The South, where many of the working poor lived, had been the region initiating and leading the public school movement. 
D)  The working poor wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream. 
E)  Building public schools promised to expand the number of construction jobs and therefore greatly improve employment prospects. 
A)  The quality of a public education was better than that of private schools in most cities at the time. 
B)  The children of the working poor would be guaranteed to no longer need to labor in factories or do farmwork. 
C)  The South, where many of the working poor lived, had been the region initiating and leading the public school movement. 
D)  The working poor wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream. 
E)  Building public schools promised to expand the number of construction jobs and therefore greatly improve employment prospects.

Question 12

Persecution of the Mormons caused them to flee to Great Salt Lake in Utah, which was then a part of Mexico.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following statements accurately describes the penitentiary established in 1816 at Auburn, New York?

Accepted Answer

A)  It emphasized the need for prisoners to socialize and learn from one another. 
B)  It stressed the value of reading literature and education programs thanks to Romanticism. 
C)  It focused on the idea of rehabilitation in addition to punishment. 
D)  Its approach to reforming criminals had long been in practice before the nineteenth century. 
E)  It transported prisoners to factories and mills as free labor. 
A)  It emphasized the need for prisoners to socialize and learn from one another. 
B)  It stressed the value of reading literature and education programs thanks to Romanticism. 
C)  It focused on the idea of rehabilitation in addition to punishment. 
D)  Its approach to reforming criminals had long been in practice before the nineteenth century. 
E)  It transported prisoners to factories and mills as free labor.

Question 14

Match each description with the item below.
-Mother Ann Lee

Accepted Answer

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada 
A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

Question 15

What was Francis Asbury's significance as a historical figure?

Accepted Answer

A)  He recognized the failures of the frontier revival system in the western territories and shifted the focus of Protestant evangelicals to the North. 
B)  He retired the practice of the sermon among many evangelical churches and asked that followers engage in community service as their primary form of worship. 
C)  As an Anglican, he used the Second Great Awakening as an opportunity to strengthen the denomination's ties to the Church of England and to abandon Episcopalianism. 
D)  His teachings caused Universalism and Unitarianism to supplant traditional religious beliefs and greatly decrease the geographical reach of evangelism. 
E)  As a Methodist, he began the itinerant preacher system, which became the most effective evangelical method of the time. 
A)  He recognized the failures of the frontier revival system in the western territories and shifted the focus of Protestant evangelicals to the North. 
B)  He retired the practice of the sermon among many evangelical churches and asked that followers engage in community service as their primary form of worship. 
C)  As an Anglican, he used the Second Great Awakening as an opportunity to strengthen the denomination's ties to the Church of England and to abandon Episcopalianism. 
D)  His teachings caused Universalism and Unitarianism to supplant traditional religious beliefs and greatly decrease the geographical reach of evangelism. 
E)  As a Methodist, he began the itinerant preacher system, which became the most effective evangelical method of the time.

Question 16

Which of the following did Universalists believe?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fear of hell should drive most decisions. 
B)  Followers must place full trust in priests and ministers. 
C)  God predestined only a few for salvation. 
D)  Everyone had dignity and worth. 
E)  Americans are God's chosen people. 
A)  Fear of hell should drive most decisions. 
B)  Followers must place full trust in priests and ministers. 
C)  God predestined only a few for salvation. 
D)  Everyone had dignity and worth. 
E)  Americans are God's chosen people.

Question 17

Which of the following did southerners use to attempt to justify slavery?

Accepted Answer

A)  claims of black racial inferiority and the idea that slavery was rooted in the Bible 
B)  the lack of competition for white jobs and the decline of the cotton industry 
C)  the threat of British cotton production exceeding America's because Britain had
More slaves 
D)  the fact that slavery was more widespread in the western territories than in the South 
E)  widespread West African support of American slavery and the slave trade 
A)  claims of black racial inferiority and the idea that slavery was rooted in the Bible 
B)  the lack of competition for white jobs and the decline of the cotton industry 
C)  the threat of British cotton production exceeding America's because Britain had
More slaves 
D)  the fact that slavery was more widespread in the western territories than in the South 
E)  widespread West African support of American slavery and the slave trade

Question 18

What were the impacts of the anti-slavery movement on society and politics?

Accepted Answer

The anti-slavery movement had significan

Question 19

African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist religions especially attractive because of their

Accepted Answer

A)  belief in the social equality of all before God. 
B)  condemnation of racial discrimination by all participants. 
C)  stoic and serious church services. 
D)  lack of Bible studies. 
E)  small number of churches and resulting privacy. 
A)  belief in the social equality of all before God. 
B)  condemnation of racial discrimination by all participants. 
C)  stoic and serious church services. 
D)  lack of Bible studies. 
E)  small number of churches and resulting privacy.

Question 20

What about the Mormons often generated hostility from non-Mormons?

Accepted Answer

A)  They denied the existence of a "promised land." 
B)  Their doctrines and practices were deemed too radical for mainstream Christianity. 
C)  They embraced all Christian denominations. 
D)  They equated the U.S. Constitution with God's law. 
E)  They promoted interracial marriage. 
A)  They denied the existence of a "promised land." 
B)  Their doctrines and practices were deemed too radical for mainstream Christianity. 
C)  They embraced all Christian denominations. 
D)  They equated the U.S. Constitution with God's law. 
E)  They promoted interracial marriage.

Exam 12: Religion

Dorothea Lynde Dix directed her reform efforts at

The "cult of domesticity" was the idea that

Frederick Douglass

Match each description with the item below. -Susan B. Anthony

The "cult of domesticity" banned women from joining organized religious denominations.

William Lloyd Garrison published a radical anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator.

Which of the following is true of the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was Brook Farm?

Members of the Shaker community

For all their differences, the variety of reform movements that arose in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century had what in common?

Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Persecution of the Mormons caused them to flee to Great Salt Lake in Utah, which was then a part of Mexico.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the penitentiary established in 1816 at Auburn, New York?

Match each description with the item below. -Mother Ann Lee

What was Francis Asbury's significance as a historical figure?

Which of the following did Universalists believe?

Which of the following did southerners use to attempt to justify slavery?

What were the impacts of the anti-slavery movement on society and politics?

African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist religions especially attractive because of their

What about the Mormons often generated hostility from non-Mormons?

The Collision of Cultures

Englands Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

From Colonies to States

The American Revolution

Strengthening the New Nation

The Early Republic

The Emergence of a Market Economy

Nationalism and Sectionalism

The Jacksonian Era

The South

Western Expansion

The Gathering Storm

The War of the Union

The Era of Reconstruction

Business and Labor in the Industrial Era

The New South and the New West

Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt

Seizing an American Empire

The Progressive Era

America and the Great War

A Clash of Cultures

The Reactionary Twenties

The Great Depression

The Second World War

The Cold War and the Fair Deal

Cold War America

A New Frontier and a Great Society

Rebellion and Reaction

Conservative Revival

Twenty-First Century America

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