An Age of Reform

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Antebellum Reform Movements Reform Year Leader Temperance 1826 Lyman Beecher Asylum reform 1843 Dorothea Dix Women's rights 1848 E.C. Stanton Abolition 1831 W.L. Garrison Common schools 1837 Horace Mann

Which religious movement provided much of the moral energy and membership behind the reforms in the table?

  • A

    The Second Great Awakening, which emphasized perfectibility and human responsibility for sin

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  • B

    The First Great Awakening's emphasis on predestination

  • C

    Deism among the educated elite

  • D

    Catholic immigrant revivalism in eastern cities

Explanation

The Second Great Awakening's belief that individuals and society could be perfected drove evangelical activism in temperance, abolition, education, women's rights, and asylum reform.

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