APUSH Chapter 15, Part 1 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860)

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Welcome to your Chapter 15 reading! Here is the first half.

As always, "Focus Questions" should guide your reading and notes, but you do not necessarily have to explicitly answer them.
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The main idea of the final paragraph is that

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Do you believe in a God or the Deist's belief that a Supreme Being created the universe?

Please explain as you are comfortable in complete sentences. Your responses will be kept confidential unless you indicate otherwise.

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As used in line 5, "episodes" most nearly means

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The passage indicates that the Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Brigham Young leading Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah
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It can be reasonably inferred that polygamy is the practice of

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Which statement best describes the relationship between education and democracy in this section?

Yes! This is Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary.

Do you remember the funky misspelling in John Winthrop's City Upon a Hill sermon? Standardization of the American language also created standards for spelling words.
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A strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that

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As used in line 2 of the first full paragraph, "place" most nearly means

Dorothea Dix is known for her work in prison and asylum reform. If you're interersted in the history of mental health and its treatment, check out this interactive timeline!
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It can be reasonably inferred that the exessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s