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Unit 2 Exam Review

Unit 2 includes: Second Great Awakening and the Marketplace of
Religion, The Crucible of Slavery: African-American Religion;
Immigration and America The Melting Pot, and Religion and the Civil
War

Exam Instructions: Please Read Carefully

The Exam will consist of terms, short answer, and essays. You will have
1 hour and 15 minutes to complete the exam.

Please note: short answers and essays must be drawn from the
resources presented in class. You may not use any internet resources
to answer these questions. Do NOT use Wikipedia. Since this is
basically an open-book exam, I expect the answers to contain well-
written and composed information from the readings, lectures, and
God In America video and Study Guides. You may NOT cut and paste
large sections of text directly from the Study Guide or from the lecture
or any other resource.

Any uncited quotations from the Study Guide or other resource will be
considered plagiarism and will receive an XF for academic
dishonesty. You may use direct quotes from the class resources, but
they must be cited. Parenthetical citations are fine, such as (Study
Guide, page 5), or (Allitt, p 34), or (lecture on Religions and Civil War).

Your answers should reflect your ability to analyze and apply the
information you have learned over the course of this Unit.

You will be expected to answer the short answer and essay questions as carefully and
thoroughly as you can. Make your points clear, support them with as much accurate
terminology, evidence, and detail as you can recall, and illustrate them with specific
examples from historical documents, class video lectures, and other course materials. Use
correct spelling of terms as you compose your response.

Now, do not get stressed out about this. What I want is for you to show me that you have
done the work of the class, and can apply your work to the questions. What I do NOT
want is a lot of stuff from the internet. Its really that simple.

See pages 2 and 3 for review terms and essays

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Matching and Short Answer Terms

Be prepared to match these terms with their definition, or to
write at least three sentences as a short answer.

Democratization of American Christianity

Cane Ridge
Shakers
The Anxious Bench
Joseph Smith
Basic beliefs of the first Latter-Day Saints
hush harbors
voodoo
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Frederick Douglass
Challenges for Irish Catholic immigrants
Challenges for German Irish Catholic immigrants
Maria Monk
Know-Nothings
Reform Judaism
Rabbi Wise
Abolition
Julia Ward Howe
immediate emancipation
Lincolns second Inaugural address

Essays

Fortheessaysectionoftheexam,you will be expected to answer the following essay

questions as carefully and thoroughly as you can. Make your points clear, support them
with as much accurate terminology, evidence, and detail as you can recall, and illustrate
them with specific examples from historical documents, class video lectures, and other
course materials. Do NOT use resources from the internet such as Wikipedia. Any
uncited sources from the internet will result in an XF for academic dishonesty. Use
correct spelling of terms as you compose your response. This essay should be at least
two paragraphs long.

1. Revivals and camp meetings followed the expanding American frontier. They
were democratic and egalitarian in their appeal. How did they reshape religion in
America? Discuss the effect of the revivals on a heightened sense of the religion
of the heart, as well as an increase in an interest in individual moral reform and
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the improvement of social ills. Be sure to include the role of Charles Finney and
his new measures.

2. Define and describe in detail the invisible institution during slavery and
how it affected the self-identity of enslaved African-Americans.

3. Describe the tensions between Protestants and Catholics in the19th-century.

How did Archbishop John Hughes appeal to the principle of religious freedom to
see, as he said, that the religious rights of my flock should not be filched away
from them?

4. Compare the religious rationale for abolition/anti-slavery in the North and

slavery in the South in the years preceding the Civil War.