Reforming Society Test Review (Chapter 9)

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Who was a popular revivalist who addressed his crowds through firefly sermons and emphasized individuals’ power to reform themselves?

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Charles Grandison Finney

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The leader of the transcendental movement was:

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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True or False: Transcendentalists believed that humans were naturally good.

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True

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True or False: Frederick Douglass protested the Mexican War by refusing to pay his taxes.

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False

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The temperance movement was an organized campaign to promote women's suffrage.

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False

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The demand for tax-supported public education ran into strong opposition.

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True

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Education reform owed much of its eventual success to reformer Horace Mann.

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True

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Harriet Beecher Stowe made a significant impact on prison reform.

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False

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Did Massachusetts jails need reform according to Dorothea Dix's visit in 1841?

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False

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Emancipation means "freeing of."

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True