Chapter 15 Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not characteristic of the Second Great Awakening?

A movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church.

The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free public education for all American children was

Horace Mann

Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were

Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson.

Two denominations that became the dominant faiths among the common people of the West and South were

Methodists and Baptists

The Knickerbocker Group of American writers included

Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and WIlliam Cullen Bryant.

The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was

an agreement to keep political issues like slavery out of the religious area.

Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of

better treatment of the mentally ill.

Many of the American utopian experiments of the early nineteenth century focused on all of the following except for

doctrines of reincarnation and transcendental meditation.

The trancedentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the ideas of

inner truth and individual self-reliance.

Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men, the pre-Civil War women's movement failed to make large gains because

it was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement.

Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to

the Christian reform of social problems in order to build the Kingdom of God on earth.

One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was

the cult of domesticity that sharply seperated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace.

The term Burned-Over District refers to

the region of western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals.

The tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion was reversed beginning about 1800 by

the revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening.

Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormons aroused hostility from many Americans because of

their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism.