Question 1

The Abolition Movement largely coincided with what major American religious movement?

Accepted Answer

The Abolition Movement coincided with the Second Great Awakening. The revivals and camp meetings that emerged during the Second Great Awakening helped bring the slavery issue into focus for many Americans in the years prior to the Civil War.

Question 2

How did the view of prisons change in the early-1800s in the United States?

Accepted Answer

In the early-1800s, the mood of Americans towards prisons began to change. Many thought that prisons Prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them. Studies began to show that many criminals had turned to violence or unacceptable behaviors because of events in their past.

Question 3

During the Antebellum era, numerous religious groups became involved in the Temperance movement, which sought to

Accepted Answer

During the Antebellum era, numerous religious groups became involved in the Temperance movement, which sought to limit and control the consumption of alcohol. The American Temperance Society was founded in 1826 and was the forerunner of later groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League.

Question 4

Which Second Great Awakening leader was known for his innovative preaching?

Accepted Answer

Charles Finney was an active Presbyterian who was known for allowing women and blacks to pray in public. Finney also denounced slavery and was active in the abolitionist movement.

Question 5

A lasting legacy of the Second Great Awakening are the social reforms of Abolition, Temperance, and Education. This man was instrumental in these reform movements. Who is he?

Accepted Answer

Lyman Beecher was part of the reform movement of the Second Great Awakening. He was a Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader. Social reform, especially in northern states, was an important part of the Second Great Awakening. The temperance movement criticized the effects of the role of alcohol in public life. Some activists began campaigning for women's rights, including suffrage, the right to vote, during this period. One of the major pushes during this period was abolition, the end of slavery in the United States.

Question 6

During the Antebellum temperance movement, which of these groups made up the majority of the people who argued for temperance?

Accepted Answer

Women were very vocal during the temperance movement. Many women joined the temperance movement because they believed that alcohol made men poor husbands, fathers, and workers.

Question 7

Which two Christian denominations are MOST closley associated with the spread of religion that occurred through the revivals and camp meetings of the Second Great Awakening?

Accepted Answer

During the Second Great Awakening, Baptist and Methodist ministers traveled through the south and the frontier territories preaching to the masses during the revivals and camp meetings that were prevalent during the era.

Question 8

This is the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

Suffrage

Question 9

This group was formed in 1826, advocating not only temperance but abolition and women's suffrage, as well.

Accepted Answer

American Temperance Society

Question 10

This is the name given to the early-19th century religious movement in the United States, exemplified by energetic revivals and dynamic preachers.

Accepted Answer

Second Great Awakening

Question 11

This was a U.S. author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Accepted Answer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 12

People who fought for emancipation of the slaves and to end the slave trade.

Accepted Answer

Abolitionists

Second Great Awakening

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