HIS 144 Quiz #2

Why did the Puritan experiment in the New World last only a few short generations?

All of the above.

________________, a proponent of Eugenics, dedicated herself to educating women about birth control

Margaret Sanger

Anne Hutchinson was evicted from ____ because of her unorthodox religious beliefs.

Massachusetts

The religious group that believed individuals received an "inner light" of divine knowledge from God and that there should be no class distinctions were the

Quakers

What did John Winthrop mean when he told his Puritan followers, "We shall be as a city upon a hill"?

That God wanted the Puritans to form a religious community in the New World that would be an example for the rest of the world, and especially Old England.

The best known experience of republican ideas in revolutionary America was

Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

At the "Scopes Monkey Trial,

famous defense lawyer Clarence Darrow volunteered to defend science teacher John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution.

Joseph Smith told followers of the Mormon religion he founded that

he had seen ancient tablets containing predictions about the end of the world; that he and his followers were called to usher in the new millennium.

The significance of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, was that it

moved large numbers of people to support independence by making republican ideals accessible to mainstream colonists.

highly influential in America, the Enlightenment

prioritized the ability to reason as the higher form of human attainment

As a result of the Great Awakening, the Baptists

saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake.

The Transcendental movement was based on the premise that

since ultimate truths are unknowable, people must look inward for the answers about how to improve the human condition.

Frederick W. Taylor developed the concept of scientific management, which dealt with

standardization of factory tasks to achieve efficiency in business

The difference between the "Old Lights" and "New Lights" was

the Old Lights advocated a more rationalistic theology; the New Lights stressed emotionalism

In the name of improving the human species, some Progressives embraced eugenics, which was

the belief that people with undesirable genetic makeup should be sterilized.

The Separatists who landed at Plymouth in 1620 signed the Mayflower Compact because

they arrived far north of the lands they were promised, so they created an agreement to obey majority rule and defend against eviction.

Which of these statements is not an accurate reflection of the Second Great Awakening?

Preachers revived religious ideas advocated by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening.

All of the following is true about the Social Gospel Movement, except

The Social Gospel incorporated the beliefs of Social Darwinism.

Maryland's Toleration Act of 1649 is significant because it

granted freedom of worship to all who accepted the divinity of Jesus Christ.