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

• The rise of Deism and Unitarianism
• The rise of new groups like the Mormons and Christian Scientists
• the revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening
• a large influx of religiously traditional immigrants

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Second Great Awakening?

• Enormous revival gatherings, over several days, featuring famous evangelical preachers
• a movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church
• The spilling over of religious fervor into missionary activity and social reform
• The prominent role of women in sustaining the mission of the evangelical churches

The term Burned-Over District refers to

• areas where Baptist and Methodist revivalists fiercely battled one another for converts
• the region of western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals
• the areas of Missouri and Illinois where the Mormon settlements were attacked and destroyed
• the church conventions where Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians split over slavery

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

• their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individual
• their efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism
• their populous settlement of Utah, which posed the treat of a breakaway republic in the West
• their practice of baptizing the dead without the permission of living relatives

the major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free education for all American children

• Mary Lyons
• Horace Mann
• Noah Webster
• Susan B. Anthony

Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of

• women's right to higher education and voting
• better treatment of the mentally ill
• temperance
• antislavery

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
• women's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights
• the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities
• the widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men

Evangelical preachers like Charles Gradison Finney linked personal religious conversion to

• the construction of large church buildings throughout the Midwest

• the expansion of American political power across the North American continent

• the Christian reform of social problems in order to build the Kingdom of God on earth

• a call for Christians to withdraw from worldly materialism and politics

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
• women were unable to establish any effective organization to advance their cause
• it became bogged down in pursuing trivial issues like changing women's fashions
• most ordinary women could not see any advantage to gaining equal rights.

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

• inner truth and individual self-reliance
• political democracy and economic progress
• personal guilt and fear of deah
• religious tradition and social reform