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The Whigs offered all of the following proposals for the remedies of the economic ills facing America in 1837 except

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proposal of the "Divorce Bill."

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Americans moved into Texas

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after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin

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The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues except

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allegiance to Spain

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Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

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San Jacinto

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Texas gained its independence with

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Help from Americans

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Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because

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they believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to civilize the territory

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One reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that

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the Mexicans opposed slavery

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Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because

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antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery

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Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from

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the South and Southwest

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The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was

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William Harrison

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William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was

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made to look like a poor western farmer

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Both the Democratic party and the Whig party

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mass-based political parties

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The two political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to

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be socially and geographically diverse

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Life on the frontier was

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downright grim for most pioneer families

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All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except

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government regulation of all major economic industry

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Pioneering Americans marooned by geography

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became ill informed and individualistic in their attitudes.

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In early-nineteenth-century America

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the urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate

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The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860

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resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities

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"Ecological imperialism" can best be described as

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the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty

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George Catlin advocated

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the preservation of nature as a national policy

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The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled, then quadrupled, in the

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1840s and 1850s

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Ireland's great export in the 1840s was

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people

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The Irish immigrants to early nineteenth-century America

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were mostly Roman Catholics and hated the British

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When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

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were too poor to move west and buy land

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When the "famine Irish" came to America, they

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mostly remained in the port cities of the Northeast

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Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants

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were Roman Catholic

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German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to

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preserve their own language and culture.

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German immigrants to the United States

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came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government

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When German immigrants came to the United States, they

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prospered with astonishing ease

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Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized

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the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

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nativism

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Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would

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"establish" the Catholic church at the expense of Protestantism

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Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860

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helped to fuel economic expansion.

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The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

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Samuel Slater

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Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

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(B.) cotton gin

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Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was

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(B.) sold to England

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The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed

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(B.) with textile mills

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As a result of the development of the cotton gin

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(A.) slavery revived and expanded

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The underlying basis for modern mass production was the

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(C.) use of interchangeable parts

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The early factory system distributed its benefits

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(A.) mostly to the owners

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Match each individual below with the correct invention. A. Samuel Morse B. Cyrus McCormick C. Elias Howe D. Robert Fulton 1. telegraph 2. mower-reaper 3. steamboat 4. sewing machine

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(B.) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3

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The American work force in the early nineteenth century was characterized by

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(A) substantial employment of women and children in factories

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One reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was

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(E) the enfranchisement of the laboring man

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In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that

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(B) labor unions were not illegal

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The "cult of domesticity"

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(D) glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers

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Early-nineteenth-century American families

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(E) were getting smaller

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One of the goals of the child-centered family of the 1800s was to

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(C) raise independent individuals

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The effect of early-nineteenth-century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was to encourage

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(A) specialized cash crop agriculture

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With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West

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(C) farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness

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In the 1790's a major transportation project linking the East to the trans-Allegheny West was the

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(E) Lancaster Turnpike

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Western road building faced all of the following problems except

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(D) Competition from canals

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The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United States was on

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(B) Western and Southern Rivers

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The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the

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(E) Erie canal in New York

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Construction of the Erie Canal

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(A) forced some new england farmers to move or change occupations

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Most early railroads in the United States were built in the

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(A) North

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Compared with canals, railroads

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(E) Could be built almost anywhere

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In the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the South _________ for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed _________; and the East _________ for the other two regions.

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(C) grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles

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As a result of the transportation revolution

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(C) each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity

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In general, _________ tended to bind the West and South together, while _________ and _________ connected West to East

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(A) steamboats, canals, railroads

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All of the following were legal questions raised as a result of the new market economy except

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(E) who should own the new transportation network?

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As the new continental market economy grew

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(B) the home came to be viewed as a refuge from the workday world

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A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was

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(D) a steady improvement in average wages and standards of living

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America's early-nineteenth-century population was notable for its

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(A) restlessness

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Factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the nineteenth century included the

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(A) rapid growth rate of the European population

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The growth of industry and the factory system in the United States was slowed by

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(B) the scarcity of labor

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The Northeast became the center of early-nineteenth-century American industry because it had

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(B) abundant water power

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The growth of early-nineteenth-century American manufacturing was stimulated by

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(A) the war of 1812

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By 1850, America's factory system was producing

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(A) textiles

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The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early nineteenth century was promoted by the

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(A) wider acceptance of the principle of limited liability

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The turnpikes, canals, and steamboats as new transportation links generally encouraged

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(A) lowering of freight rates

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Clipper ships and the Pony Express had in common

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(B) speedy service

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Advances in manufacturing and transportation brought

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(B) more prosperity and opportunity to most americans

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The Deist faith embraced all of the following except

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(A) the concept of original sin

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Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of

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(D) a supreme being who created the universe

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By 1850, organized religion in America

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(C) had lost some of its austere calvinist rigor

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All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it

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(E) was not as large as the first great awakening

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Unitarians endorsed the concept of

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(C) salvation through good works

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An early-nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the

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(A) unitarians

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Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in

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(B) a strong religious influence in many areas of American life

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As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated

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(E) All of the above

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The greatest of the revival preachers of the Second Great Awakening was

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(D) Charles G. Finney

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The Second Great Awakening tended to

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(A) promote religious diversity

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The Mormon religion originated in

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(E) the burned-over district of New York

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The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the

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(C) methodists and Baptists

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The Second Great Awakening tended to

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(A) widen the lines between classes and religions

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The original prophet of the Mormon religion was

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(E) Joseph Smith

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Which of the following is the least related to the other four

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(B) William Miller

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One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their

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(D) emphasis on cooperative or group effort

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Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening

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(B) lacked much intellectual vitality

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Tax-supported public education

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(E) was deemed essential for social stability and democracy

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were

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(A) chiefly available to educate the children of the poor

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Noah Webster's dictionary

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(B) helped to standardize the American language

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One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that

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(E) too much learning would injure women's brains and injure their health

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Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because

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(A) evangelical religion emphasized their spiritual dignity and religious social reform legitimized their activity outside the home

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Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were

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(B) moral sensibility and artistic refinement

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New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of

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Prison and asylum reform

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The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s

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(E) stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many

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Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because

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(D) the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles

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One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was

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(C) that rape was more severely punished in the US

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Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for

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(E) a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor

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