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apush study guide ch 15 chapter ap us history vocabulary
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12/14/2011
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The Deist faith embraced all of the following the reliance on ______ rather than ______, belief in a human beings' capacity for good behavior, and denial of the _____ of Jesus
 Definition
reason, revelation, diety/divinity
Term
Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of a _____ Being who created the _____.
 Definition
Supreme, universe
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By 1850, organized religion in America had lost some of its austere ____ rigor.
 Definition
Calvinist
Term
All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening that it resulted in the ____ of countless souls, encouraged a variety of _____ reforms, strengthened democratic denominations like the _____ and _____, and was a reaction against the growing _____ in religion.
 Definition
conversion, humanitarian, Baptist, Methodists, liberalism.
Term
Unitarians endorsed the concept of ____ through _____ works.
 Definition
salvation, good
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An early-nineteenth-century religion rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the _______.
 Definition
Unitarians
Term
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in a strong ____ influence in many areas of American life.
 Definition
religious
Term
Religious revivalist preacher, ____ ____ ____ advocated opposition to slavery, a perfect Christian kingdom on earth, opposition to alcohol, and prayer by women.
 Definition
Charles Grandison Finney
Term
Which one of the following is least related to the other four? A) Brigham Young B) William Miller C) The Book of Mormon D) Salt Lake City E) polygamy
 Definition
B) William Miller
Term
The Greatest of the revival preachers of the Second Great Awakening was _____
 Definition
Charles G. Finney
Term
The Mormon religion originated in the Burned-Over-District of _____.
 Definition
New York
Term
The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the ____ and _____.
 Definition
Methodists, Baptists.
Term
The Second Great Awakening tended to widen the lines between _____ and _____.
 Definition
classes, regions
Term
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was ____ _____.
 Definition
Joseph Smith
Term
One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their emphasis on ______ or __________.
 Definition
cooperative, group effect
Term
Many of the denominational liberal arts college founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening lacked much ______ vitality.
 Definition
intellectual
Term
Tax-supported public education was deemed essential for _____ stability and _______.
 Definition
social, democracy
Term
In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were chiefly available to educate the children of the _____.
 Definition
poor
Term
Noah Webster's dictionary helped to standardize the _____ language.
 Definition
American
Term
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 ____ and ruin their _____.
 Definition
brain, health
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Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because evangelical religion emphasized their _____ dignity and religious social reform legitimized their activity ______ the home.
 Definition
spiritual, outside.
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Two areas where women in the nineteenth century was widely thought to be superior to men were _____ sensibility and _____ refinement.
 Definition
moral, artistic
Term
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of ____ and _____ reform.
 Definition
prison, asylum
Term
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s stemmed from the _____ and _____ life of many.
 Definition
hard, monotonous
Term
Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because the _____ economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles.
 Definition
market
Term
One sign that women in America were treated better than woman in Europe was that ______ was more severely punished in the US.
 Definition
rape.
Term
Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for a ban on the manufacture and sale of _____ ______.
 Definition
intoxicating liquor
Term
By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by _______.
 Definition
abolitionism
Term
According to John Humphrey Noyes, the key to happiness is the suppression of ____.
 Definition
selfishness
Term
The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included the following: no _____ property, sharing of all _____ goods, belief in vengeful _____, improvement of the human race through _______.
 Definition
private, material, diety, eugenics.
Term
The key to Oneida's financial success was the ____ of steel animal traps and _____.
 Definition
manufacture, silverware
Term
The Oneida colony declined due to widespread criticism of its _____ practices.
 Definition
sexual
Term
The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for its still ______ standards.
 Definition
primitive
Term
Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ________ as one of their founding ideals.
 Definition
cooperative socially/economic practices
Term
One of the following, the most successful one of early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at ______, New York.
 Definition
Oneida
Term
When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was more interested in ______ matters.
 Definition
practical
Term
America's artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth century were least notable in _______.
 Definition
architecture
Term
The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting ______.
 Definition
landscapes
Term
A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the wave of _____ that followed the war of 1812.
 Definition
nationalism
Term
______ believed that all knowledge came through an inner light.
 Definition
Transcendentalists
Term
All of the following influenced transcendental thought ______ philosophers, ______ religions, individualism, and love of _____.
 Definition
German, oriental, Nature
Term
"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist _______
 Definition
Henry David Thoreau
Term
The poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was ______________.
 Definition
Walt Whitman
Term
The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War was ___________.
 Definition
William Gilmore Simms
Term
One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was _______________.
 Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
Virtually all the distinguished historians of early-nineteenth-century America came from ______.
 Definition
New England.
Term
Match each individual below with the correct description. A. Louis Agassiz B. Gilbert Stuart C. John J. Audubon 1. author of Birds of America 2. portrait artist 3. romantic novelist 4. Harvard biologist
 Definition
D) A-4, B-2, C-1
Term
Match each writer below with his work. A. Washington Irving B. James Fenimore Cooper C. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1. Walden 2. Leatherstocking Tales 3. The Sketch Book, with "Rip Van Winkle" 4. "The American Scholar"
 Definition
B) A-3, B-2, C-4
Term
Match each writer below with his work. A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Herman Melville 1. The Scarlet Letter 2. Moby Dick 3. "Hiawatha"
 Definition
E) A-3, C-l, D-2
Term
The Second Great Awakening tended to ______
 Definition
promote religious diversity
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