History

The reform efforts of the 1820s and 1830s emerged:

A) in response to the economic and social changes of Jacksonian America.
B) when President Andrew Jackson began to encourage Americans to restore their traditional values.
C) because the stability of the era gave Americans the opportunity to reflect on the need for moral reform.
D) as an effort by political leaders to limit the influence of church leaders on American society.

The revivals of the Second Great Awakening upheld the doctrine that:

A) religion was a way to become wealthy.
B) salvation was available to all.
C) only women should be religious.
D) men and women were predestined to salvation or damnation.

The new middle-class family:

A) was larger because increased prosperity allowed parents to support more children.
B) was smaller and based on the idea of privacy.
C) made sacrifices for the education of daughters so they could be successful and take care of themselves.
D) was more prosperous because of dual income of husband and wife.

The ideal of domesticity:

A) held that women's sphere was the home and family.
B) was strongest among working-class women, who wanted to quit their jobs and stay at home.
C) stressed the father's spiritual leadership in the home.
D) was opposed by the revivalists because it took women away from religion.

Transcendentalists believed that:

A) the best way to transcend the sinful world was to live and work in cooperative congregations.
B) the final judgment day was at hand and human beings needed to prepare to transcend to heaven.
C) reason and rationalism allowed humans to transcend intellectual limits.
D) humans had a spark of divinity that let them transcend the material world.

Romanticism:

A) came from Europe as part of the Enlightenment.
B) considered emotion the source of truth.
C) valued education as the essential means to discover truth.
D) was incompatible with the doctrines of the revivals.

The Oneida community:

A) bankrupted its founder.
B) lasted only a few years before disbanding.
C) was based on the principle of sexual equality.
D) was an extreme example of the doctrine of perfectionism

The Mormon Church/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

A) appealed to poor people who rejected materialism.
B) was founded/chartered in Palmyra, NY in 1830.
C) sought to re-establish the ancient church.
D) rejected both evangelicalism and millennialism.

The temperance movement enjoyed the success it did for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) it reflected the ideals of democratic capitalism.
B) it received support from the federal government.
C) it strongly appealed to women.
D) temperance helped achieve upward mobility.

The educational reform movement:

A) believed tax-supported public schools would promote equal opportunity.
B) was most successful in the South.
C) led to the establishment of high schools throughout the country.
D) was supported by businessmen but opposed by workers.

The abolitionist movement split in 1840:

A) because of the Liberty party's strong showing in 1839.
B) because of Garrison's support for black rights.
C) over the issue of women's rights.
D) because the movement was bankrupt and could not pay its debts.

By 1840, the reform movement had:

A) helped pull the different sections of the nation together.
B) angered Westerners who did not want to pay taxes to support reforms.
C) helped highlight differences between the North and the South.
D) revealed that New England was a moralistic region different from the rest of the nation.