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AP U.S. History

APUSH 4.10: The Second Great Awakening

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17 questions on Topic 4.10: revivals and free will vs. predestination, Finney and the burned-over district, Methodists and Baptists, the AME Church, Mormons, Millerites, Shakers, and how the Awakening fed reform. Includes source and data questions.

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17 questions across 4 sections. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.

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The Second Great Awakening was
  1. A. a movement to make the Church of England the official church of the United States
  2. B. a Catholic movement led by Irish immigrants in Boston
  3. C. a wave of Protestant revivals that stressed personal choice in salvation ✓
  4. D. a series of court cases that ended church taxes in every state

Correct answer: C. Revivals spread from the frontier to the Northeast, teaching that anyone could choose to be saved and live a better life.

A key way Second Great Awakening preachers broke from older Calvinist teaching was by
  1. A. requiring sermons to be given in Latin
  2. B. rejecting strict predestination and saying people could choose salvation ✓
  3. C. teaching that salvation could be bought from the church
  4. D. insisting that only ordained ministers could read and interpret the Bible for believers

Correct answer: B. Calvinists held that God chose the saved in advance. Revivalists like Finney stressed free will, an idea that fit a democratic age.

Frontier camp meetings, like the one at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801, were known for
  1. A. huge crowds, emotional preaching and public conversions ✓
  2. B. quiet readings of Latin prayers by bishops
  3. C. meetings where state legislatures chose U.S. senators
  4. D. trade fairs selling New England factory goods

Correct answer: A. Thousands camped out for multi-day revivals with shouting, weeping and fainting under emotional sermons.

Charles Grandison Finney is most closely associated with
  1. A. predicting that the world would end in 1844
  2. B. founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830
  3. C. leading revivals in western New York's "burned-over district" ✓
  4. D. leading a slave rebellion in Virginia

Correct answer: C. Finney held long meetings, used the "anxious bench" and let women pray aloud in public, drawing thousands in towns such as Rochester.

The "burned-over district" in western New York got its name because
  1. A. it was where the Shakers burned their books
  2. B. its forests were cleared by fire to make room for new cotton plantations
  3. C. British troops burned its towns in the War of 1812
  4. D. so many revivals and new religious movements swept through it ✓

Correct answer: D. The area along the Erie Canal had been "burned over" by repeated revivals, and it also produced Mormonism, Millerism and many reformers.