Chapter 15 Packet Flashcards
The practice of having two or more spouses at one time
Polygamy
Marriage or two or more wives
Polygyny
Marriage to two or more husbands
Polyandry
Literally, rule by god; the term is often applied to a state where religious leaders exercise direct or indirect political authority
Theocracy
One who is carried away by a cause to an extreme or excessive degree
Zealot
Referring to any theoretical plan that aims to establish an ideal social order or a place founded on such principles
Utopian
Referring to the economic theory or practice in which the means of production are owned by the community as a whole
Communistic
Referring to the belief in or practice of the superiority of community life or values over individual life but not necessarily the common ownership of material goods
Communitarian
The principle or practice of open sexual relations unrestricted by law marriage or religious constraints
Free love
Concerning the improvement of the human species through selective breeding or genetic control
Eugenic
The practice of sexual intercourse without the males release of semen
Coitus reservatus
Specifically in western civilization the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome and the artistic or cultural values presumed to be based on those ancient principles more generally ant cultural form whose value has been established and recognized over time
Classical
Referring to the belief in the direct apprehension of god or divine mystery, without reliance on reason or human comprehension
Mystical
One who refused to follow establish or conventional ideas or habits
Nonconformist
The principle of resolving hostilities or managing conflict without resort to physical force
Nonviolence
Sophisticated elegant cosmopolitan
Urbane
Under the care and direction of god or other benevolent natural or supernatural forces
Providential
The second great awakening reversed the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the late eighteenth century
False
The religious revivals of the second great awakening occurred almost entirely in rural frontier communities
False
The Mormon church migrated to the Utah frontier to escape persecution and to establish its tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution
True
The primary purpose for establishing taxpayer supported free public schools was to educate all citizens for participation in democracy without regard to wealth
T/ f
Most practical hardworking Americans disliked highly educated intellectuals and writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson
T/ f
Many early American reformers were middle class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism
T/ f
The key role of women in American reform movements was undergirded by a growing feminization of the churches that spawned many efforts at social improvement
T/ f
The Seneca falls convention of 1848 was considered most radical for issuing the demand for the women’s right to vote
T/ f
Many of the prominent utopian communities of early nineteenth century involved communal ownership of property and sexual practices different from the conventional norm
T/ f
Advances in medicine and science raised the average life expectancy of Americans to nearly 60 yrs by 1850
T/ f
The knickerbocker group of American writers sharply criticized the militant nationalism and western expansionism that followed the war of 1812
T/ f
Although it rejected most Americans materialism and focus on practical concerns transcendentalism strongly reflected American individualism love of liberty and hostility to formal institutions and authority
T/ f
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught the doctrines of simple living and nonviolence, while his friend Henry David Thoreau emphasized self improvement and the development of a uniquely American scholarship
T/ f
The works of Walt Whitman such as leaves of grass revealed his love of democracy the frontier and the common people
T/ f
The fiction of Edgar Allen Poe and Herman Melville reflected most Americans optimism and belief in social progress and reform
False
The tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion was reversed beginning about 1800 by
The revivalist movement called the second great awakening
Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the west and south were
Methodists and baptists
Which of the following was not characteristic of the second great awakening
A movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church
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
The term burned over district refers to
The region of western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals
The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was
A split of baptists Methodists and Presbyterians into desperate northern and southern churches
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
The major promoter of an effective tax supported system of free public education for all American children was
Horace Mann
Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of
Better treatment of the mentally ill
One primary cause of women’s subordination in nineteenth century America was
The cult of domesticity that sharply separated women’s sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace
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
Many of the American utopian experiments of the early nineteenth century focused on all of the following except for
Developing small business enterprises and advanced marketing techniques
Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to new England’s literary reputation were
Louisa may Alcott and Emily Dickinson
The knickerbocker group of American writers included
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant
The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and fuller stressed the ideas of
Inner truth and individual self reliance
