Exam 14: The Ferment of Reform and Culture

How did each of the following encourage early-to-mid-19^th-century social reforms: Second Great Awakening, industrialization, and nostalgia for the past? What specific social reforms grew out of the Second Great Awakening, industrialization, and nostalgia for the past? What were the political, economic, social, and religious limitations that restricted these social reforms from going further than they did during this era?

Identify and state the historical significance of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.

The key to Oneida's financial success was

The Second Great Awakening tended to

By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by

The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s

Unitarians held the following beliefs EXCEPT

In the first half of the 19^th century, tax-supported schools were

The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for

The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War who wrote works such as The Yemasee and The Cassique of Kiawah was

Identify and state the historical significance of Charles G. Finney.

Church attendance was still a regular ritual for ____ of the 23 million Americans in 1850.

In what ways did American literature in the early 19^th century reflect the New Democracy of the Jacksonian age? In what ways was the literary flowering of transcendentalism a continuation or a break from the literary themes of the Jacksonian age? Use specific literary examples and reference particular American writers of the early-to-mid-19^th century to support your arguments.

As one the greatest of the revivalist preachers, Charles Grandison Finney advocated

A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the

The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the

In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s, historians have regarded some reformers in the abolitionist, temperance, mandatory public education, and asylum social reform movements not so much as heroes, but as people who sought social control. What is your opinion of this view on these social reformers held by some historians of the era?

Virtually all the distinguished American historians who wrote American and Latin American histories during the mid-19^th century came from

Identify and state the historical significance of Robert Owen.

One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was that