American Pageant Ch 15 True/False

The Second Great Awakening revered the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the later eighteenth century.

• True
• False

The religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening occured almost entirely in rural frontier communities.

• True
• False

The Mormon church migrated to the Utah frontier to escape persecution and to establish its tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution.

• True
• False

The primary purpose for establishing taxpayer-supported free public schools was to educate all citizens for participation in democracy, without regard to wealth.

• True
• False

Most practical, hard-working Americans disliked highly educated intellectuals and writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• True
• False

Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism.

• True
• False

The key role of women in American reform movements was under-girded by a growing feminization of the churches that spawned many efforts at social improvement.

• True
• False

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was considered most radical for issuing the demand for women's right to vote.

• True
• False

Many of the prominent utopian communities of early nineteenth century involved communal ownership of property and sexual practices different from the conventional norm

• True
• False

Advances in medicine and science raised the average life expectancy of Americans to nearly 60 years by 1850.

• True
• False