A) recognition of the limits of science and reason.
B) a belief that Americans were too religious.
C) a desire for art and literature that was uniquely American.
D) a return to and celebration of conformity over nontraditional behavior.
E) an emphasis on the rational over the mystical.
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A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F) was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G) was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H) advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I) was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J) was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada
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A) The Oneida Community's numerous silver forges and coal mines left a smoky haze over the region and complicated western travel.
B) Sinfulness had been wiped out of the region such that preachers held it up in their sermons as a model religious community.
C) The area had seen numerous religious movements and denominations sweep through the population, roiled by evangelical revivalism.
D) The area's overwhelming turn away from religion signaled the end of the era of Jacksonian democracy.
E) A long and widespread drought had caused numerous fires in the region, and a record number of American lives were lost.
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A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F) was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G) was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H) advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I) was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J) was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada
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A) the popularity of camp meetings as a social outlet for isolated rural people
B) the belief that only a small minority could attain salvation
C) the growing appeal of Catholicism due to its revolutionary aid to the poor
D) declining literacy rates due to the lack of printing technologies
E) popular new translations of the Bible
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A) As a white abolitionist, he demanded immediate emancipation of slaves and launched the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.
B) He organized an anti-slavery political party that grew in size such that it participated in several presidential elections in the early 1800s.
C) As a prominent business leader, he used calm, moderate language to oppose unfair treatment of laborers in factories and bring other industrialists to his side.
D) He was a black man murdered when a mob attacked his printing office, and his death sent shockwaves around the country.
E) As a southern senator, he actively defended slavery because of its importance to the economy and created a system for turning in runaways.
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A) started the Unitarian church in Utah.
B) was a great revivalist preacher from New England.
C) founded the Mormon Church in western New York.
D) claimed to be God's only prophet.
E) was a "circuit rider" preacher from the South.
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A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F) was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G) was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H) advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I) was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J) was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada
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A) violent tactics of abolitionists.
B) danger of encouraging slave rebellion.
C) end of a free press.
D) growing support for black equality.
E) fact that support of slavery extended into the North.
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A) Unitarian.
B) Deist.
C) outlaw.
D) teacher.
E) circuit rider.
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A) farm families
B) working-class groups
C) women's groups
D) prosperous higher-class groups
E) Native Americans
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A) the growing distrust of religion among African Americans.
B) the formation of the Methodist denomination.
C) the decline of Baptists in the South.
D) The Book of Mormon.
E) the intense discord between Presbyterians and Congregationalists.
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A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F) was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G) was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H) advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I) was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J) was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada
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