Author Question: How did the Great Awakening encourage the growth of democracy in the colonies? A) Individuals ... (Read 21 times)

melly21297 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Who were the Old Lights?

A) Ministers who rejected the emotionalism of the Great Awakening.
B) Opponents to the Great Awakening who the revivalists claimed were damned.
C) Religious leaders who favored leaving the Anglican Church.
D) Those who believed that terror of hell was the best motivator of spirituality.

Question 2

Leading up to the Spanish-American War in 1898, the yellow press controlled by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst __________.

A) endorsed a policy of isolationism
B) focused more attention on local scandals than foreign affairs
C) used sensationalism to stir up war fever over Cuba
D) published editorials criticizing American imperialism

Question 3

How does the frontispiece image from the novel Aunt Phillis's Cabin, or Southern Life as It Is compare with the view of slavery presented in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

A) Slaves benefited economically from the cotton they harvested in the fields.
B) Slaves enjoyed a happy, carefree existence instead of brutal treatment from overseers.
C) Slaves actually demanded more rights than what Stowe addressed in her novel.
D) Slaves faced horrible consequences for being lazy and off task.

Question 4

What effect did President Eisenhower's statement If a citizen has to be bored to death it is cheaper and more comfortable to sit at home and look at television than it is to go outside and pay a dollar for a ticket have on American popular

culture in the 1950s? A) The film industry remained more productive than the television industry.
B) The number of televisions in American households declined.
C) Drive-in movie theaters grew in number and popularity.
D) Many movie theaters closed and studios made fewer films.

Question 5

How did the Great Awakening encourage the growth of democracy in the colonies?

A) Individuals were urged to keep the status quo by remaining in their current congregations.
B) Groups who had been previously excluded from colonial society such as Quakers, women,
Indians, and blacks had greater voices in this religious movement.
C) Preachers of the Great Awakening inspired colonists to pursue greater economic
opportunities.
D) Followers of the Great Awakening began to focus on the abolition of slavery.