The Romantic Era


1) founded the Mormon Church.

2) Brigham Young

    A) wrote the Critique of Pure Reason.

    B) was shot and killed by an anti-Mormon lynch mob in Illinois.

    C) led the Mormons to their settlement in Utah.

    D) wrote the golden tablets that became the basis of the Mormon faith.



3) The Second Great Awakening stressed reform rather than simple conversion True False

4) All of the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it

    A) resulted in the conversion of countless souls.

    B) encouraged a variety of humanitarian reforms.

    C) was not as large as the First Great Awakening.

    D) was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion.



5) An early 19th century religious rational sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the

    A) Unitarians

    B) Adventists

    C) Methodists

    D) Mormons



6) The greatest of the revivial preachers of the Second Great Awakening was

    A) Joseph Smith

    B) Horace Greeley

    C) Carl Shurz

    D) Charles G. Finney



7) Up-state New York was called the "Burned-Over District" because of the numerous large fires, caused by emerging industrialization, that swept the area in the 1830s-1840s. True False

8) The man who led the movement that believed Christ's second coming was imminent and convinced his followers to sell their possessions and go to the highest place around to await his coming was .

9) Millenialism is the belief in the coming of a new age, usually tied into religious beliefs in the second coming of Christ. True False

10) was a transcendental philosopher who wrote the influential tract "Civil Disobedience."

11) Romanticism

    A) came from Europe as part of the Enlightenment.

    B) was incompatible with the doctrine of the revivals.

    C) considered emotion as the source of truth.

    D) was a uniquely American cultural movement.



12) Transcendentalism

    A) was the theological foundation undergirding the revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

    B) was based on the ideas of Nathaniel Taylor.

    C) rejected individualism in favor of utopian communalism.

    D) sought to rise above reason through individualist spiritual communion with nature.



13) , a reaction against the Enlightenment, stressed individual intuition and feeling rather than reason as the means to truth.

14) wrote books based on the folklore of the Dutch communities of the lower Hudson River Valley, including such works as "Rip Van Winkle."

15) American writers of the early nineteenth century took much of their inspiration from the Romantic writers of Europe, but injected a distinctly American component by setting their stories in the Americas, examining distinctly American situations. True False

16) The painters of the Hudson River school tended towards painting nature with man non-existant or miniscule that were grand in scale. True False

17) The leader of the Transcendentalists, who was at one time a Unitarian minister, was .




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