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2 September 2022
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highly influential in America, the Enlightenment
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prioritized the ability to reason as the higher form of human attainment
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Anne Hutchinson was evicted from ____ because of her unorthodox religious beliefs.
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Massachusetts
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The Separatists who landed at Plymouth in 1620 signed the Mayflower Compact because
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they arrived far north of the lands they were promised, so they created an agreement to obey majority rule and defend against eviction.
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Maryland's Toleration Act of 1649 is significant because it
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granted freedom of worship to all who accepted the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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Why did the Puritan experiment in the New World last only a few short generations?
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All of the above.
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The best known experience of republican ideas in revolutionary America was
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
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The Transcendental movement was based on the premise that
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since ultimate truths are unknowable, people must look inward for the answers about how to improve the human condition.
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All of the following is true about the Social Gospel Movement, except
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The Social Gospel incorporated the beliefs of Social Darwinism.
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Joseph Smith told followers of the Mormon religion he founded that
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he had seen ancient tablets containing predictions about the end of the world; that he and his followers were called to usher in the new millennium.
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The difference between the "Old Lights" and "New Lights" was
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the Old Lights advocated a more rationalistic theology; the New Lights stressed emotionalism
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The religious group that believed individuals received an "inner light" of divine knowledge from God and that there should be no class distinctions were the
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Quakers
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The significance of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, was that it
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moved large numbers of people to support independence by making republican ideals accessible to mainstream colonists.
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In the name of improving the human species, some Progressives embraced eugenics, which was
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the belief that people with undesirable genetic makeup should be sterilized.
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________________, a proponent of Eugenics, dedicated herself to educating women about birth control
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Margaret Sanger
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At the "Scopes Monkey Trial,
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famous defense lawyer Clarence Darrow volunteered to defend science teacher John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution.
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Which of these statements is not an accurate reflection of the Second Great Awakening?
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Preachers revived religious ideas advocated by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening.
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What did John Winthrop mean when he told his Puritan followers, "We shall be as a city upon a hill"?
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That God wanted the Puritans to form a religious community in the New World that would be an example for the rest of the world, and especially Old England.
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Frederick W. Taylor developed the concept of scientific management, which dealt with
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standardization of factory tasks to achieve efficiency in business
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As a result of the Great Awakening, the Baptists
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saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake.