American Yawp Chapter 10
American antislavery shifted from gradualism to immediatism during which decade?
1830s
The "Gag Rule" was designed to eliminate the voice of which group in Congress?
Abolitionists
How did the Second Great Awakening promote "spiritual egalitarianism?"
All of the above
What was the term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening?
Burned Over District
Which of the following descriptions most accurately describes "disinterested benevolence?"
Christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others
What was the primary cause of the 1839 division in the American Antislavery Society?
Disagreements over the usefulness of electoral politics and the importance of women's rights
Which of the following denominations benefitted the least from the Second Great Awakening?
Episcopalians
Transcendentalism initially began among which group?
German theologians ( ask mrs. h )
Which of the following had the greatest influence on William Lloyd Garrison's move from gradualism to immediatism?
Reading fiery tracts penned by black northerners David Walker and James Forten
Which benevolent movement enjoyed the most success during the 1820s?
Temperance
Which of the following came first?
Women began forming antislavery societies
Which of the following social changes enabled women to take prominent roles in social reform movements?
Women participated in reform, but they did not hold positions of prominence until after the Civil War
Female activists used which of the following expectations of gender to justify social activism?
Women were expected to be the moral caretakers of the home and therefore it was their duty to speak out on moral issues
Which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in nineteenth-century Atlantic intellectual trends?
ask mrs h
Which of the following statements best describes the status of Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening?
ask mrs h