Period 4 AP classroom- social
Which of the following political changes most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening?
A participatory democracy expanded belief in the importance of the individual.
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society in the excerpt use to support its argument about the need for the temperance movement?
Alcohol consumption damaged people's physical and emotional well-being.
The ideas expressed by John C. Calhoun and others who shared his views on slavery had which of the following effects on emerging abolitionist movements in the years leading up to the Civil War?
As many people came to see slavery as part of the Southern way of life, attitudes on both sides of the slavery argument hardened so that political compromise became difficult.
The development of the Second Great Awakening can best be linked to which of the following historical situations?
Increased geographical mobility aided travel to new regions and the sharing of ideas.
Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?
Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience.
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most White families owned slaves.
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most southern families held slaves.
The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of
Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845 — Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 The language used in both excerpts most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?
The Second Great Awakening
"Free should the scholar be,—free and brave. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. . . . A nation of men will for the first time exist." Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist writer, 1837 Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?
The emergence of a national culture
Which of the following claims best aligns with the evidence in the excerpt about the relationship between enslaved African Americans and White Southern citizens?
The slave system gave poor White citizens the feeling of social superiority over free and enslaved African Americans in a culture where African Americans held little power.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?
They called for expanded women's rights.
"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit." The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?
Transcendentalism
William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for
advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation
The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
demands for equal compensation for equal work
The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned
no slaves
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the "burned-over district" because
of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
temperance
The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
the natural population increase of American-born slaves
