Deists and the Supreme Being.

Topics: America
The Deist faith did NOT embrace
The concept of original sin

Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of
a Supreme being who created the univers

By 1850, organized religion in America
had lost some of its austere Calvinist rigor

Unitarians endorsed the concept of
salvation through good works

An early nineteenth century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the
Unitarians

The Second great Awakening was NOT
as large as the First Great Awakening

Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
a strong religious influence in many areas of American life

As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
opposition to slaver
a perfect Christian kingdom on early
opposition to alcohol
public prayer by women

The greatest of the revival preachers of the Second Great Awakening was
Charles G. Finney

The Second Great Awakening tended to
promote religiou sdiversity

The religious sects that gained most form the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the
Methodists and Baptists

The Second Great Awakening tended to
widen the lines between classes and regions

Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening
Lacked much intellectual vitality

The Mormon religion originated in
the Burned Over District of New York

The original prophet of the Mormon religion as
Joseph Smith

One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non Mormons was their
emphasis on cooperative or group effort

Tax supported public education
was deemed essential for social stability and democracy

In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax supported schools were
chiefly available to educate the children of the poor

Noah Webster’s dictionary`
helped to standardize the American language

One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the
belief that-too much learning would injure women’s brains and ruin their health

Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because
evangelical religion emphasized their spiritual dignity and religious social reform legitimized their activity outside the home

Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were
moral sensibility and artistic refinement

new England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
prison and asylum reform

The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many

Neal Dow sponsored the Main Law of 1851, which called for
a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor

Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth century America because
the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles

By the 1850s, the crusade for women’s rights was eclipsed by
Abolitionism

According to John Humphrey Noyes, the key to happiness is
the suppression of selfishness

The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes did NOT include
Strictly monogamous marriages

The key to Oneida’s financial success was
the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware

The Oneida colony declined due to
widespread criticism of its sexual practices

Most of the Utopian communities in pre-1860s America held cooperative social and economic practices
as one of their founding ideals

The most successful of the early nineteenth century communitarian experiments was at
Oneida, New York

The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for
its still primitive standards

When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was
more interested in practical matters

Each individual below is matched with the correct descripitohn
Louis Agassiz-Harvard Biologist
Gilbert Stuart-Portrait Artist
John J. Audubon-author of Birds of America

America’s artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth scentury
were least notable in architecture

The Hudson River school excelled in the art of paitning
landscapes

A genuinely American literature received a strong boost form the
Wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812

Each writer below is matched with his work
Washington Irving-The Sketch Book, with Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper-Leatherstocking Tales
Ralpho Waldo Emerson- The American Scholar

Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
an inner light

Transcendentalist thought was NOT influenced by
Catholic Belief

Civil Disobedience, and essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. was
written by the transcendentalist-Henry David Thoreau

The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love for the masses and enthusiasm for expanding America was
Walt Whitman

The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War was
William Gilmore Simms

One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
Edgar Allan Poe

Each writer below is matched with his work
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-Hiawatha
Edgar Allan Poe-The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville-Moby Dick

The Knickerbocker group of American writers included
Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant

American transcendentalist writers included
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller

Virtually a.l the distinguished historians of the early nineteenth century America came from
New England

Early Nineteenth century American educators included
Horace Mann
William H. McGuffey
Noah Webster
Emma Willard
Mary Lyon

Social reformers of the early nineteenth century wanted to
find a practical application of their evangelical religion; reaffirm traditional values in the confusion of industrialization; fulfill the ideals of American democracy

In early nineteenth century America
women could not vote

In early nineteenth century America, men usually regarded women as
having a sharply distinct economic role in society; physically and emotionally weak but morally superior to men; having their proper place in the home

The leaders of women’s rights movement in the early nineteenth century included
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony

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