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What religious denomination did Thomas Jefferson collaborate with to end Virginia's religious establishment?
baptists
What US city was the center of evangelic protestant moral reform?
New York
How did Methodists and other evangelical denominations spread their religion in frontier areas?
traveling ministers or "circuit riders"
American Protestants mistrusted Catholics during the early 19th century for all of the following reasons, except...
the Pope and most Catholic colonists had opposed US independence
How did New York State resolve the controversy between Catholics and Protestants over religious instruction in public schools?
by ending religious instruction in public schools
What was the name given to the areas upstate NY most impacted by religious revivals?
the burned-over district
What was the most successful social reform movement of the 1820s-1830s?
temperance
How did disestablishment, or the end of state government support for particular religious denominations, affect religion in US?
it created a "spiritual marketplace" in which different denominations competed for followers
Which of the following denominations didn't originate in the Second Great Awakening?
pentacostals
What caused the abolition movement in the US to splinter around the end of the 1830s?
disagreements over future strategy of the movement and women's rights
By 1860, cotton exports made up what percentage of all US exports?
60%
Which of the following cleared the way for eastern people to resettle in the Deep South?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
About how many enslaved people lived in the US South in 1860?
4 million
What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?
all of these are correct
In the decades before the Civil War, which of the following broke up between 1/5 and 1/3 of all enslaved marriages?
sale or forced migration
Where was the southern middle class the strongest?
southern cities
What present-day African country was founded by African Americans?
liberia
What happened to Nat Turner?
he was executed
What was the function of southern dueling?
preserving the honor of both participants
How did evangelical Christianity influence race relations in the US South?
all of these are correct
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