Exam 10: Toward an American Culture

For the most part, religion and the position of pro-slavery advocates were compatible in the South.

Most Protestant denominations in America

Southern camp meetings were usually limited to a single denomination.

Southern evangelicals moved from calling for an end to slavery to strongly supporting it.

Followers of the William Miller, a New York Baptist who predicted that God would destroy the world in 1843, later founded the_____________ church.

Cheap "story papers," "yellow-back" fiction, and dime novels found their first and largest audience among_____________.

Joseph Smith labeled the centuries of greed and error of the Christian churches the_____________.

How did southern evangelicalism change its position on slavery between 1780-1840?

The American theater could best be described as

The first full-blown camp meeting took place in Georgia in 1808.

The Southern Presbyterian minister who wrote "how to preach to slaves" manuals and encouraged slaves to be obedient was_____________.

An 1849 dispute over the acting styles of two Shakespearians led to a riot in which twenty people were killed.

Prior to the 1860s, it would be unthinkable for an American novelist to write about explicit sexuality.

Evangelicals such as Charles Colcock Jones believed that slaves

The Baptist millenarian William Miller condemned greed and the city of New York.

Which of the following were most likely to be postmillennialists?

The Mormon Church was organized along_____________ lines.

The best-selling author of the antebellum period (before Harriet Beecher Stowe) was Susan Warner.

Voting rights increased as_____________ requirements were eliminated.

Those that believed that God would end the world after 1,000 years of social perfection were_____________.