Exam 12: Religion

Anti-slavery organizations initially used the tactic of promoting a gradual end to slavery by prohibiting it in the western territories but went on to demand immediate abolition everywhere.

Describe the various facets and accomplishments and limitations of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Which Protestant denomination was grounded in biblical fundamentalism and stressed the equality of all before God and had no authority higher than the congregation?

Which of the following statements about Brigham Young is accurate?

Why might women be drawn to camp meetings?

As a leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that

The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it

Which of the following writers proved perhaps the most controversial American writer of the nineteenth century, was a political activist, wrote excitedly about industrial development, and Penned the controversial, free-verse work Leaves of Grass?

Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century

Which of the following best describes the Transcendental Club, which had its first meeting in the 1830s?

Why did the American Colonization Society acquire the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia?

Many prison reformers of the early 1800s, such as those at Auburn, used the penitentiary for

The American Temperance Union often asked that members that took the pledge

The southern state that by 1860 had done the most to advance public education was

Attempts to create official African American Methodist congregations largely failed because freed slaves feared discrimination.

Match each description with the item below. -Sylvester Graham

What were the origins of the major social-reform movements in the early nineteenth century? How did they influence society and politics?

The word "teetotaler" originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.

Although American literature flourished, newspaper readership declined during the first half of the nineteenth century.