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Which Protestant denomination "stressed the equality of all before God" and had no authority higher than the congregation?

Baptist

A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.

False

Mormon leader Joseph Smith was an advocate of "monogamous marriage."

False

The "cult of domesticity" banned women from joining any professions.

False

The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks

False

The successful example of antebellum utopian communities converted many Americans to socialism.

False

The women's rights movement secured the vote for women in several states before 1860.

False

Who was considered the leader of transcendentalism?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southerners used all of the following to justify slavery, EXCEPT:

Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence.

The American Colonization Society established the African nation of Liberia as a new home for free American blacks

True

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

belief in salvation for all

The Seneca Falls Convention:

demanded equal rights for women.

All of the following are reasons Mormons generated hostility from non-Mormons, EXCEPT that they

denied they were Christians

Brigham Young:

led the Mormons to Utah

The American Colonization Society acquired the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia because the society saw it as a:

place to transport free blacks and freed slaves.

Unitarianism stressed:

reason and conscience.

Working-class people were attracted to Universalism because it:

stressed the possibility of salvation of all people.

Which of the following was associated with the Second Great Awakening?

the popularity of camp meetings

All of the following statements about the American Colonization Society are true, EXCEPT that it:

was supported by black leaders.

Frederick Douglass:

wrote a famous account of his life as a slave