True or False Chapter 12 Self-Quiz 1

s3e_TF 12.1

. The Second Great Awakening was solely a product of American ideas and beliefs.

. Compared to the previous 40 years, the period from 1820 to 1860 saw a fourfold increase in the number of new churches started.

. Finney rejected free will, believing that God preordained everything at the creation.

. Between 1825 and 1850, average annual consumption of alcohol for Americans over the age of 15 dropped from seven gallons to less than two.

. Abolitionists probably never totaled more than 5 percent of the northern population.

. Elijah Lovejoy was an abolitionist printer who was murdered for his beliefs.

. As slaveholders entered evangelical churches, they rejected a more paternalistic social order.

. Slaveholders' attempts to control African American belief generally succeeded.

. Hawthorne and Melville reflected universal themes in their work.

. Black sailors were key to transmitting knowledge about the Haitian Revolution to African American communities.

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