Large outdoor camp meetings in Kentucky and Tennessee were an early feature of the Second Great Awakening.
Correct Answer
True
True. Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian preachers drew huge crowds to frontier camp meetings around 1800, and the revival spirit later spread east through New York and New England.
Category: Second Great Awakening
Question 2
Many followers of the Second Great Awakening believed in a coming thousand-year reign of God on earth.
Correct Answer
True
True. This belief, called millennialism, held that a thousand years of harmony and Christian morality lay ahead, and it encouraged believers to reform society in preparation.
Category: Second Great Awakening
Question 3
Circuit riders were ministers who spent their careers serving a single fixed congregation.
Correct Answer
False
False. Circuit riders were traveling ministers with no fixed congregation who rode from settlement to settlement, preaching wherever people gathered.
Category: Second Great Awakening
Question 4
Benevolent societies such as the American Bible Society and the American Tract Society spread religious publications during the Second Great Awakening.
Correct Answer
True
True. These societies, founded in 1816 and 1825, distributed Bibles and religious pamphlets across the country as church membership grew rapidly.
Category: Second Great Awakening
Question 5
Henry David Thoreau's Walden describes the time he spent living in a cabin near Concord, Massachusetts.
Correct Answer
True
True. Published in 1854, Walden recounts Thoreau's two years in a simple cabin on Walden Pond, presenting nature as a path to self-knowledge and individualism.
Category: Transcendentalism
Question 6
Margaret Fuller edited The Liberator, the leading abolitionist newspaper of the 1830s.
Correct Answer
False
False. Margaret Fuller edited The Dial, a transcendentalist journal, beginning in 1840. The Liberator was William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
Category: Transcendentalism
Question 7
Nathaniel Hawthorne, an early member of Brook Farm, later fictionalized the experience in The Blithedale Romance.
Correct Answer
True
True. Hawthorne joined the cooperative in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, soon after George Ripley founded it in 1841, stayed only a few months, and later drew on the experience in the novel.
Category: Transcendentalism
Question 8
Shaker communities placed men in authority over women and gave women a lesser role.
Correct Answer
False
False. Shakers treated men and women as equals, a radical idea for the time, and taught that God had both male and female aspects.
Category: Utopian Communities
Question 9
Joseph Smith published The Book of Mormon in 1830.
Correct Answer
True
True. Smith said he had translated golden plates revealed to him by an angel, and in 1830 he published the book and founded the church that became the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Category: Utopian Communities
Question 10
Joseph Smith was killed by an anti-Mormon mob while he was jailed in Missouri.
Correct Answer
False
False. Smith was killed by a mob while jailed in Illinois in 1844, after the Latter-day Saints had moved from Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois.
Category: Utopian Communities
Question 11
The earliest temperance societies of the 1810s demanded that members give up all alcohol completely.
Correct Answer
False
False. The first temperance groups, led by Protestant ministers in New England, urged moderation in drinking. Calls for total abstinence came later.
Category: Temperance and Health
Question 12
By the mid-1830s, many temperance societies called for teetotalism, which meant giving up beer and wine as well as hard liquor.
Correct Answer
True
True. Teetotalism extended the pledge from distilled spirits to all alcohol, a stricter demand that divided the movement and cost it some momentum.
Category: Temperance and Health
Question 13
Sylvester Graham urged Americans to eat a diet rich in meat and spices.
Correct Answer
False
False. Graham recommended a diet of vegetables, fruits, and grains with no meat, alcohol, or spices, and he combined this diet with temperance and strict views on sexuality.
Category: Temperance and Health
Question 14
Frederick Douglass published an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star.
Correct Answer
True
True. Douglass published the North Star in Rochester, New York, giving a formerly enslaved man his own voice in the antislavery press.
Category: Abolitionism
Question 15
William Lloyd Garrison urged abolitionists to use armed force against slaveholders.
Correct Answer
False
False. Garrison rejected violence and relied on moral suasion, appealing to the public's conscience, although he demanded an immediate end to slavery.
Category: Abolitionism
Question 16
Most Northerners in the 1830s supported the abolition of slavery.
Correct Answer
False
False. The vast majority of Northerners rejected abolition, and many feared that emancipation would bring Black workers north to compete for jobs; abolitionists often faced hostile mobs.
Category: Abolitionism
Question 17
Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy was killed by an anti-abolitionist mob in Illinois in 1837.
Correct Answer
True
True. Lovejoy's death was one of several violent attacks on abolitionists in the 1830s, along with the mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison in Boston in 1835.
Category: Abolitionism
Question 18
In 1838, a mob of abolitionists burned Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia.
Correct Answer
False
False. Pennsylvania Hall, newly built as a meeting place for abolitionists, was burned by a crowd of anti-abolitionists in 1838.
Category: Abolitionism
Question 19
Catharine Beecher argued that women should serve their country mainly by seeking election to public office.
Correct Answer
False
False. In The Duty of American Women to Their Country (1845), Catharine Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, argued that women could best restore moral order by teaching children right from wrong, a view rooted in women's traditional role in the home.
Category: Women's Rights
Question 20
Women formed their own antislavery societies, such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Correct Answer
True
True. Because male abolitionists largely kept women out of leadership in the American Anti-Slavery Society, women organized separate groups such as the Philadelphia and Boston Female Anti-Slavery Societies, which raised money and organized boycotts.
Category: Women's Rights