How did the Second Great Awakening transform American religious culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Students will stress the shift from a Puritan notion of predestination to a doctrine that emphasizes individual responsibility for salvation. This emphasis on individual responsibility helped create the basis for reform movements like temperance that were built upon the ideal that individuals can successfully battle sin. They should also see the growing competition between sects as leading to a need for greater separation between church and state, though they may well note that this did not stop religious activists from using the power of the state to promote their own version of Christian morality.
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a) established a Supreme Court b) created the Justice Department c) abolished the system of state courts d) limited the terms of judges to 10 years
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A. African rejection of Christian churches. B. Devolution of church leadership to homegrown leaders. C. The failure of European Christian churches in Africa. D. The ascendancy of Islam in northern Africa.
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A) Nevi'im B) Ketuvim C) Hebrew Bible D) Torah
The Mandal Commission can be said to have been ________
A) completely successful B) partially successfully C) a failure D) unimportant