Revivals, Counterfeits, Art

Question 1

Religion-wise, what was America open to?

Answer 1

Everything was open to great religious spread, but this also made it easy for cults to form.

Question 2

What is different between normal religion and cults?

Answer 2

Cults practice religion differently than the church, and they are called ‘religious brainwashers.’

Question 3

What did most people want religion-wise in America?

Answer 3

They wanted pure and free worship, so no cults or anything of the sort. They also wanted the bible’s teachings to be more incorporated into life.

Question 4

What is Calvinism?

Answer 4

The belief that we are like dead people, we cannot ourselves choose our path/destiny; that God does it for you.

Question 5

What does Calvinism see God?

Answer 5

Calvinists believe that God brings us alive to love him and fulfill what he wants us to do.

Question 6

What is Arminianism?

Answer 6

The belief that God is always there to help us, but we need to choose to take his help.

Question 7

How did Arminianists see things like alcohol?

Answer 7

They saw them as complete evil and avoided them.

Question 8

How did Arminianists see slavery?

Answer 8

They saw it as disallowing humans to be free and making them unable to complete God’s destiny for them.

Question 9

What is Deism?

Answer 9

The belief that we are all corrupted except for our minds, and thinking brings us towards God.

Question 10

What is the problem with Deism?

Answer 10

Since they mainly believed in thinking for themselves, God wasn’t given much power over anything.

Question 11

What is Unitarianism?

Answer 11

The belief that the trinity was wrong and the Jesus was not God. Unitarianists believed that Jesus only spread the word of God and nothing else.

Question 12

What does it mean to be Humanist?

Answer 12

A seperate smaller belief in which humans must achieve their own holiness and that the Bible is wrong because many people wrote it a long time ago.

Question 13

What is Transcendentalism?

Answer 13

The belief that there is something above and higher than us, and they mainly thought that there was no difference between creator and creation.

Question 14

What is believed to be the reason that most people weren’t religious in the Frontier?

Answer 14

Their life was very hard and their hard work caused them to have no time to focus on religion and the past.

Question 15

What does ‘No Creed but Christ’ mean?

Answer 15

It means that all you need to do is believe in Christ.

Question 16

Who is Charles Finney?

Answer 16

A man from Connecticut who lived between 1792 and 1845.

Question 17

What beliefs did Charles Finney spread?

Answer 17

He believed that man could be perfected and that Sinning loses your salvation.

Question 18

How did Charles Finney change peoples’ beliefs?

Answer 18

He embarrassed people in public and made them guilty until they accepted Christ.

Question 19

Who is Asahel Nettleton?

Answer 19

He is also from Connecticut and he lived between 1783 and 1844.

Question 20

What beliefs did Asahel Nettleton spread?

Answer 20

He believed that God gave out grace and that humans are total depraved.

Question 21

What is different between Asahel Nettleton and Charles Finney?

Answer 21

They had nearly opposite beliefs.

Question 22

Who are the Shakers?

Answer 22

A cult led by Mother Ann Lee.

Question 23

What was the belief of the Shakers?

Answer 23

The belief that everyone should be prepared for God’s next coming.

Question 24

Why did the Cult grow so large?

Answer 24

Most people didn’t know much about the bible, which allowed the cult to grow large and this also allowed Mother Ann Lee to give herself a lot of power.

Question 25

Who are the Mormons?

Answer 25

A cult founded by Joseph Smith, who lived between 1805 and 1844.

Question 26

How was the Mormon cult started?

Answer 26

In 1830, Joseph Smith claimed to have met with God who told him that all churches are corrupt and that he should make a right one.

Question 27

What are some Mormon beliefs and things they did?

Answer 27

They rejected the Holy Trinity, and they believed that once you died you become the god of your own world. Also, they were polygamous and had as many children as possible.

Question 28

Who are the Christian Scientists?

Answer 28

A cult founded by Mary Baker Eddy, who lived between 1820 and 1910.

Question 29

How was the Christian Scientists cult started?

Answer 29

Mary Baker was going to many doctors all the time and nothing fixed her problem, so she tried spiritual healing and it worked.

Question 30

What are some beliefs of the Christian Scientists cult?

Answer 30

They believed that people are mostly spiritual and that true faith is in healing.

Question 31

Who is Washington Erving?

Answer 31

A famous writer who traveled all around Europe and is credited for inventing the American Fairytale.

Question 32

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Answer 32

A man from Washington who is known as the Secular Puritans.

Question 33

Why is he called the Secular Puritan?

Answer 33

He loved the Puritan ideals, but he didn’t like how they worshipped God.

Question 34

Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

Answer 34

A Puritan from New England who was also a Unitarian. He also wrote many famous poems such as the Midnight Ride.

Question 35

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer 35

A very famous poet from Virginia, arguably one of the best in U.S. history.