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Second Great Awakening

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

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1.

Which statement best explains how the Second Great Awakening influenced change in American society?

a)

It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

b)

It inspired the growth of social reform movements.

c)

It led to the industrialization of northern cities

d)

It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

2.

Define the term suffrage

a)

the right to live

b)

the right to protest

c)

the right to vote

d)

the right to educate

3.

True or False: As a result of the Second Great Awakening (a series of revivals in the 1790s-early 1800s), the dominant form of Christianity in America became evangelical Protestantism

a)

True

b)

False

4.

True or False: Charles Finney conducted his own revivals in the mid 1820s and early 1830s.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The________ ___________ movement was about women's rights and held a convention in Seneca Falls, New York

(a)  

6.

True or False: The 2nd Great Awakening degraded women to fail society.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders most closely associated with which movement?

a)

Socialism

b)

Suffrage

c)

Environmentalism

8.

True or False: Fredrick Douglas

*Escaped from slavery in 1838

*Author (Narrative published 1845)

*Newspaper publisher (Libertor) 1847

*Worked closely with radicals, particularly with the Underground Railroad

*Helped about 1,000 slaves every year escape to the North

*Raised awareness of conditions for slaves

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What are the TWO factors that led to growth of abolition movement in North in 1820s and 1830s.

a)

The Second Great Awakening (starts 1801) inspired a reform spirit in the North

b)

Agitation of black abolitionists and signs of black unrest in the South inspired white abolitionists

c)

Southern postmasters refused to deliver antislavery literature

d)

In 1835 President Andrew Jackson unsuccessfully petitioned Congress to ban the mailing of abolitionist pamphlets

10.

The two figures in the photo are

a)

William Neal

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Frederick Denver

d)

William Garrinson

e)

William Harris