APUSH Chapter 15 Homework

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

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.

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

• communal economics and alternative sexual practices
• temperance and diet reforms
• developing small-business enterprises and advanced marketing techniques
• doctrines of reincarnation and transcendental meditation

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

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False