Chapter 15 Packet

Question 1

The practice of having two or more spouses at one time

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Polygamy

Question 2

Marriage or two or more wives

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Polygyny

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Marriage to two or more husbands

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Polyandry

Question 4

Literally, rule by god; the term is often applied to a state where religious leaders exercise direct or indirect political authority

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Theocracy

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One who is carried away by a cause to an extreme or excessive degree

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Zealot

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Referring to any theoretical plan that aims to establish an ideal social order or a place founded on such principles

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Utopian

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Referring to the economic theory or practice in which the means of production are owned by the community as a whole

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Communistic

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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

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Communitarian

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The principle or practice of open sexual relations unrestricted by law marriage or religious constraints

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Free love

Question 10

Concerning the improvement of the human species through selective breeding or genetic control

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Eugenic

Question 11

The practice of sexual intercourse without the males release of semen

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Coitus reservatus

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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

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Classical

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Referring to the belief in the direct apprehension of god or divine mystery, without reliance on reason or human comprehension

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Mystical

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One who refused to follow establish or conventional ideas or habits

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Nonconformist

Question 15

The principle of resolving hostilities or managing conflict without resort to physical force

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Nonviolence

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Sophisticated elegant cosmopolitan

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Urbane

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Under the care and direction of god or other benevolent natural or supernatural forces

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Providential

Question 18

The second great awakening reversed the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the late eighteenth century

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False

Question 19

The religious revivals of the second great awakening occurred almost entirely in rural frontier communities

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False

Question 20

The Mormon church migrated to the Utah frontier to escape persecution and to establish its tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution

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True

Question 21

The primary purpose for establishing taxpayer supported free public schools was to educate all citizens for participation in democracy without regard to wealth

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T/ f

Question 22

Most practical hardworking Americans disliked highly educated intellectuals and writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson

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T/ f

Question 23

Many early American reformers were middle class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism

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T/ f

Question 24

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

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T/ f

Question 25

The Seneca falls convention of 1848 was considered most radical for issuing the demand for the women’s right to vote

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T/ f

Question 26

Many of the prominent utopian communities of early nineteenth century involved communal ownership of property and sexual practices different from the conventional norm

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T/ f

Question 27

Advances in medicine and science raised the average life expectancy of Americans to nearly 60 yrs by 1850

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T/ f

Question 28

The knickerbocker group of American writers sharply criticized the militant nationalism and western expansionism that followed the war of 1812

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T/ f

Question 29

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

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T/ f

Question 30

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

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T/ f

Question 31

The works of Walt Whitman such as leaves of grass revealed his love of democracy the frontier and the common people

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T/ f

Question 32

The fiction of Edgar Allen Poe and Herman Melville reflected most Americans optimism and belief in social progress and reform

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False

Question 33

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

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The revivalist movement called the second great awakening

Question 34

Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the west and south were

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Methodists and baptists

Question 35

Which of the following was not characteristic of the second great awakening

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A movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church

Question 36

Evangelical preachers like Charles grandison finney linked personal religious conversion to

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The Christian reform of social problems in order to build the kingdom of god on earth

Question 37

The term burned over district refers to

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

Question 38

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

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A split of baptists Methodists and Presbyterians into desperate northern and southern churches

Question 39

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

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Their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism

Question 40

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

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Horace Mann

Question 41

Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of

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Better treatment of the mentally ill

Question 42

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

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The cult of domesticity that sharply separated women’s sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace

Question 43

Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men the pre civil war women’s movement failed to make large gains because

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It was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement

Question 44

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

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Developing small business enterprises and advanced marketing techniques

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Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to new England’s literary reputation were

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Louisa may Alcott and Emily Dickinson

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The knickerbocker group of American writers included

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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant

Question 47

The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and fuller stressed the ideas of

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Inner truth and individual self reliance