Chapter 10 Flashcards
Which of the following denominations benefitted the least from the Second Great
Awakening?
Episcopalians
What was the term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great
Awakening?
Burned Over District
Which of the following statements best describes the status of Calvinism during the Second
Great Awakening?
Americans were turning away from Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening
How did the Second Great Awakening promote “spiritual egalitarianism?”
All of the above
Transcendentalism initially began among which group?
American clergymen
Which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in nineteenth-century
Atlantic intellectual trends?
Orientation toward the future rather than the past
Which of the following social changes enabled women to take prominent roles in social
reform movements?
As women moved outside the household, they were able to devote time to other
causes
Which of the following descriptions most accurately describes “disinterested benevolence?”
Christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others
Which benevolent movement enjoyed the most success during the 1820s?
Temperance
American antislavery shifted from gradualism to immediatism during which decade?
1830s
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
The “Gag Rule” was designed to eliminate the voice of which group in Congress?
Abolitionists
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
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 came first?
Women began forming antislavery societies
