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The Making of Middle-Class America
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1 .       Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visited America primarily to study the American System of Manufacturing. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Alexis de Tocqueville had special interest in America's cities and the prevalence of poverty there. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       In the early nineteenth century, the factory system of production undermined the authority of the wife and mother in the homes of middle-class Americans. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Early nineteenth-century middle-class women, particularly in cities, tended to marry later and have fewer children than the previous generation. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The evangelical revivalism of the Second Great Awakening had a particular appeal to uprooted workers and middle-class women in America. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Most of the leaders of the philanthropic and religious voluntary associations in early nineteenth-century America were professionals or their wives. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Early nineteenth-century American social reformers demanded that the mentally handicapped be taken out of asylums and reintegrated, or "mainstreamed" into the life of their communities. 

 
 


8 .       Much of the opposition to the temperance movement's demand for total prohibition of alcoholic beverages came from Irish and German immigrants. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       In 1840 and 1844, Frederick Douglass, a former slave, ran as an abolitionist presidential candidate on the Liberty party ticket. 

 
 


10 .       Most abolitionists were moral perfectionists who demanded racial equality and dismissed the Constitution as a proslavery document. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       Most women's rights advocates began their reform careers as abolitionists. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       The arrival of the factory system of production diminished the husband's power within the family unit. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       The early nineteenth-century's women's rights movement's major issue was gaining women the right to vote. [Hint]

 
 






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