Quiz: Chapter 15

The Second Great Awakening was mainly a wave of:

• a. Protestant religious revivalism
• b. Labor strikes
• c. Political party formation
• d. Military conflict

Charles Grandison Finney was famous for his:

• a. Emotional revival preaching
• b. Abolitionist newspaper
• c. Utopian community
• d. Public school system

Joseph Smith founded which religious movement in 1830?

• a. Mormonism
• b. Transcendentalism
• c. Shakerism
• d. Unitarianism

Horace Mann is best known for championing:

• a. Tax-supported public schools
• b. Women's suffrage
• c. Prison abolition
• d. Temperance laws

Dorothea Dix is best known for her advocacy for:

• a. Humane treatment of the mentally ill
• b. Abolition of slavery
• c. Women's voting rights
• d. Public education

The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) issued the:

• a. Declaration of Sentiments
• b. Missouri Compromise
• c. Monroe Doctrine
• d. Emancipation Proclamation

Brook Farm was an example of a:

• a. Utopian community
• b. Public school
• c. Political party
• d. Textile factory

William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper, demanding immediate abolition, was called the:

• a. Liberator
• b. North Star
• c. Tribune
• d. Gazette

Frederick Douglass was significant because he:

• a. Was an escaped enslaved man who became a leading abolitionist voice
• b. Founded the Mormon Church
• c. Led the temperance movement
• d. Was a transcendentalist poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading figure of:

• a. Transcendentalism
• b. Abolitionism
• c. Temperance
• d. Mormonism

Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" argued for:

• a. Principled resistance to unjust laws
• b. Violent revolution
• c. Strict obedience to all laws
• d. Ending public education

Maine's 1851 law was significant as the first statewide:

• a. Prohibition of alcohol
• b. Public school system
• c. Ban on slavery
• d. Women's suffrage law