Mar1 Alt ?s Freethinker by Jacoby (3-4).

1.   The “woman question” was no side issue for Garrison, because it was inseparable from what? (77).

2.   What was a painful thorn in the side of religious conservatives? (78).

3.   Because her personal and unorthodox faith was the center of her being and informed all of her social conviction, Mott exemplified the bonds linking what? (85).

4.   What historical document was debated in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19, 1848? (90).

5.   For Ernestine Rose, what was a basic right owed all men and women – not a privilege to be denied on the basis of educational, economic, and class-based disadvantages. (100).

6.    During the war years, no one agonized over moral and ethical issues more profoundly, or articulated them more clearly for the American public, than whom? (108).

7.    As a general rule, the post-presidential acquaintances emphasized Lincoln’s religiosity, while those who had known the president from his young manhood emphasize what? (112).

8.   Lincoln’s evolution from a cautious gradualist on abolition into the Great Emancipator is of course a remarkable case study of what? (118).

9.   What makes Lincoln a compelling figure to religious believers and nonbelievers alike? (118-9).

 Alternative discussion questions.

1.   Soon after the war ended, the Western Christian Advocate, described Lincoln meeting with his cabinet as follows: “all dropped on their knees, and offered in silence and in tears their humble and heartfelt acknowledgment to the Almighty for the triumph he had granted to the national cause.” An eyewitness to the event said it never happened. This was an early example of “fake news.” Can you think of anything comparable today?

2.    Jacoby says that many sincere Christians wanted to believe that Lincoln shared their religious beliefs because “his great prominence in the world’s history, and his identification with some of the great questions of our time…to trace his motives and actions similar convictions to those held by themselves. Do you think Christians throughout the nation who supported the Confederacy shared those views?