How did the Second Great Awakening view the role of women?
a. Women should be concerned only with the spiritual lives of their families.
b. Women were spiritually inferior to men.
c. Women should not take leadership roles in religion.
d. Women could be important agents for change in society.
ANSWER: d
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A) ironic B) judgmental C) joyful D) condescending E) detached
Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas.
a. true b. false
What impact did Free-Soil candidate Martin Van Buren have on the election of 1848?
A. He cost Lewis Cass New York and Pennsylvania, and with these two states the election. B. He forced Lewis Cass to take a much stronger stand on slavery than he wanted to. C. He cost Zachary Taylor Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and with these two states the election. D. He had no impact on the outcome of the election but had a profound effect on the public debate over slavery.
Which of the following is not true of the increasing poverty of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
A) Riots and revolts were a frequent result. B) The Reformation renewed Christian ideals of poverty. C) The poverty came to be seen as a social problem; many of the poor were forced into almshouses and poorhouses. D) Begging was often outlawed but never eliminated. E) Caring for the poor became institutionalized and systematic.