Sojourners at Home-Quizs!

Dreaming of freedom with a religious imagination, slaves would frequently mention this biblical figure.

Initially, slaves found it difficult to embrace Christianity due in part to low literacy rates.

The famous Lakota Sioux, Black Elk, converted to ____________ later in life.

By the end of the 19th century, most Jews in America practiced one of the following traditions EXCEPT...

Buddhist missionaries on the West Coast hoped to convert Christians to __________ in the 19th century.

By 1860, ___________% of African Americans in the US were enslaved.

Indian boarding schools took children away from their tribes to force American culture and language upon native people.

Another name for slavery in the United States was that "peculiar institution."

This chapter was about ____________ in the United States.

Another name for slaves in the 19th century was "bondsmen."

Native American religious traditions recreated different tribal creation stories through...

As Christianity spread among people who were enslaved, a new form of singing, known as the spiritual emerged in America.

Outside of Methodism and Baptist churches, African Americans thrived in these two, new denominations....

Chinese immigrants brought the following religious traditions with them to America in the 19th century EXCEPT...

While women were not typically ordained in Black churches they maintained powerful leadership roles. These leaders were

The authors believe that ___________ may be the oldest continuously practiced religious tradition in North America

This branch of Judaism was formed as a reaction against Reform Judaism, and it focused on strict adherence to Torah.

During the __________ the Chinese began coming to America in large numbers to work during the Gold Rush.

While independent, Black churches in the south were rare, slaves gathered after work days to sing and praise God in....

Native Americans saw time as continuous, not fragmented into past, present, and future.

Native American religious traditions were portable and not tied to the land.

Slaveholders did not like missionaries preaching to slaves, because they feared discussion of equality in Christianity.

Native Americans sometimes coverted to Christianity because of...

This branch of Judaism broke from some of its traditions and embraced a modern sensibility and Enlightenment thought.

Many Native American traditions adopted aspects of Christianity. This tribe adopted Christian hymns.

By the end of the 19th century, roughly half of African Americans identified as Christian.

This individual, a former slave, was first a Methodist minister, then founder of the AME church...

Native American traditions believed in the spiritual power of the natural world.

Isaac Wise, founder of Reform Judaism, said the Messiah wasn't a person, but Judaism and its focus on justice.

During the 1770s and 1780s missionaries gained more slave converts because of an emotional appeal to conversion.

African American slaves normally sat apart from Whites in Baptist and Methodist churches.