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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The Fires of Perfection (1820-1850)

Multiple Choice


1	The reform efforts of the 1820s and 1830s emerged:
		A)	in response to the economic and social changes of Jacksonian America.
		B)	because the stability of the era gave Americans the opportunity to reflect on the need for moral reform.
		C)	when President Andrew Jackson began to encourage Americans to restore their traditional values.
		D)	as an effort by political leaders to limit the influence of church leaders on American society.


2	The revivals of the Second Great Awakening upheld the doctrine that:
		A)	men and women were predestined to salvation or damnation.
		B)	salvation was available to all.
		C)	only women should be religious.
		D)	religion was a way to become wealthy.


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


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


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


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


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


8	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.


9	The temperance movement enjoyed the success it did for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
		A)	it received support from the federal government.
		B)	it strongly appealed to women.
		C)	it reflected the ideals of democratic capitalism.
		D)	temperance helped achieve upward mobility.


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


11	The abolitionist movement split in 1840:
		A)	because of Garrison's support for black rights.
		B)	because the movement was bankrupt and could not pay its debts.
		C)	over the issue of women's rights.
		D)	because of the Liberty party's strong showing in 1839.


12	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)	revealed that New England was a moralistic region different from the rest of the nation.
		D)	helped highlight differences between the North and the South.

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