History 1301: Chapter 12

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

Baptist

The woman who wrote the profoundly influential A Treatise on Domestic Economy was:

Catharine Beecher.

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

False

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

Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence.

Frederick Douglass was a black abolitionist.

True

Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of republican virtue.

True

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

True

John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, was arrested and ultimately forced to flee New York because he:

advocated complete sexual freedom.

For all their differences, the variety of reform movements that arose in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century had what in common?

an impulse to "perfect" people and society

Universalists believed that:

everyone could be saved.

Joseph Smith:

founded the Mormon Church in western New York.

Deists:

included Founding Fathers such as Jefferson and Franklin.

All of the following are true of Brook Farm, EXCEPT that it was:

long lasting.

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.

By the 1830s, John C. Calhoun was arguing that:

slavery was a "positive good."

Mother Ann Lee was:

the founder of the Shakers.

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

the popularity of camp meetings