Chapter 10 quiz

Which of the following ideas was associated with the Temperance movement?

A. Discouraging people from drinking alcohol.

Which abolitionist was a former slave who escaped from slavery and was know for his popular 1845 autobiography and his powerful anti-slavery speeches?

A. Frederick Douglass

Which statement about William Lloyd Garrison is correct?

A. He was a prominent abolitionist and was the publisher of The Liberator.

As a spiritual and intellectual movement, Transcendentalism:

A. Stressed individualism, optimism, personal mystical experiences and the oneness with nature.

Charles Grandison Finney was:

B. An influential revivalist preacher who stressed emotion, spiritual perfectionism and human choice in salvation.

Before the Civil War, the United States saw the emergence of several new religious groups that lives in communes. Which one practiced "complex marriage" in which men were married to all women in the group and vice versa?

C. The Oneida Community.

The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention:

C. Was a gathering of women's rights activists.

The Mormons were:

D. A religious group that claimed to have a new Scripture that had been revealed to Joseph Smith by angelic beings.

Which religious group saw tremendous growth during the Second Great Awakening and was the most popular denomination in the United States by 1850?

D. The Methodists

What sorts of people tended to support the Temperance Movement?

D. Women and middle class Protestans.