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Which political party was most supportive of government involvement in the market developments of the period from 1820 to 1840?

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Whig

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Who was most interested in creating a public school system?

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Horace Mann

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Many Catholic parents refused to send their children to public school because

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students were forced to recite Protestant prayers and read the Protestant Bible

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The leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane was

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Dorothea Dix

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Which of the following was not true of the Auburn System of prisons?

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Prisoners were forbidden to speak to one another at any time

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One of the leading crusaders against the use of alcohol was

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Lyman Beecher

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The annual consumption of alcohol, which had reached an all-time high during the 1820's

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dropped by more than one-half during the 1830's

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The abolitionists of the 1830's

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were an active and influential minority within the reform movements of the era

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By the 1830's, slavery in the northern states was

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virtually extinct, only a handful remained

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Which is true of the democratic party of the 1840's regarding the issue of race?

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Many democrats considered blacks unfit to be citizens

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The major antislavery society before the 1830's was the

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American Colonization Society

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Few people agreed with the American Colonization Society's attempt to transport blacks to Aftica because

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few free blacks were interested in moving to Africa

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The leader of the slave uprising in Haiti that led to the nation's independence in 1804 was

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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The most prominent abolitionist in antebellum United States was

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions?

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Northeastern Cities

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The primary goal of the American Anti-Slavery Society was

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the immediate emancipation of the slaves

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Most women became advocates of women's rights through

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abolitionism

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Which of the following was not a demand of women's rights reformers in the 1840's?

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More restrictive divorce laws

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The first Women's Rights Convention (1848) was held in

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Seneca Falls

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The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled most closely on the

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Declaration of Independence

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Members of the Democratic Party were not suspicious of

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inequality for African Americans

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Which of the following political parties was most suspicious of federal attempts to promote internal improvements (canals and turnpikes)?

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Democratic

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The group most likely to be denied political power in the Northeast was the

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African Americans

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The Whig party supported all of the following except

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public suspicion and mistrust of the influence of privileged economic groups on federal policies

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The Democratic Party was supported by

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All of the Above

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During the 1820's through the 1840's, the Democrats

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favored limitations on government power

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In the U.S. banking system of the 1830's and 1840's,

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state-chartered and state-owned banks controlled the amount of money in it's circulation

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On the issue of internal improvements, the Democrats

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opposed funding projects that would raise taxes and increase state debts

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The "common" schools of the 1820's and 1830's

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were tax-supported public schools that promoted citizenship and moral standards

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Many nineteenth-century northern social reformers believed that criminals, the mental ill, and poor people

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had been mistreated as children and could be rehabilitated as adults

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The temperance crusade of the mid-nineteenth century

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was primarily a middle-class movement that was strongest in the Northeast

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The Washington Temperance Society was different from other reform groups in that it

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All of the above

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After 1820, free black workers in the North

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were displaced by Irish immigrants who worked for low wages and used violence to intimidate competitors

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Which of the following is not true about the Washington Temperance Society

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It called for resting male authority within the family

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In the nineteenth century supposedly "scientific" theories on racial differences indicated that

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whites and blacks were actually two separate species

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The Advocate of Moral Reform was the newsletter of the

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Female Moral Reform Society

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Sylvester Graham

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was a temperance lecturer who warned that dietary and sexual indulgence was unhealthy

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The New York Magdalen Society

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set up missions to save and reform prostitutes

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In general, the wealthiest men in cities were

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Whigs

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The most overwhelmingly Democratic group in the country were

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immigrant Irish Catholics

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Which of the following had a wholly state-owned bank

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Georgia

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The New York Magdalen Society sought to eliminate

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prostitution

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Those who were atheists or who were least concerned about religion tended to e

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Democrats

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In the South wealthy planters tended to vote for the _________ Part

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Democratic

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Democrats feared that government would

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concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few

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"hard money" Democrats

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opposed paper money

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The Whig Party believed that government

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was an agency of moral reform

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Whigs differed from Democrats in their approach to public schools in that whigs believed

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Schools should be centralized and controlled by state boards of education

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Most southern voters

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opposed social improvement legislation

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Beer was introduced into America by

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The Germans

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