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Chapter 10: The Making of Middle-Class America

Multiple Choice Quiz #2

Multiple Choice Quiz #2
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 9 questions.

	In early nineteenth-century American cities, inequalities of wealth   began to appear for the first time remained stable did not exist were widening were narrowing

	All of the following accompanied the industrial revolution in early nineteenth-century America EXCEPT   an increase in the size of families growth in the size and number of cities rapid population growth immigration a declining birthrate

	Which one of the following LEAST influenced women's role in early nineteenth-century America?   the cult of true womanhood the growth of cities the women's rights movement the doctrine of separate spheres their economic class

	In the early nineteenth century, America's birth rate began to fall for all the following reasons EXCEPT   longer courtship before marriage the overall slower growth of the population the willful practice of sexual abstinence couples waiting longer to have children young people began marrying later

	Early nineteenth-century middle-class families were becoming all the following EXCEPT   more maternalistic smaller in size more a unit of economic productivity separated into sex-determined "spheres" a more intimate and caring group

	The Second Great Awakening evangelists expressed the belief that   God revealed His Word by divine revelation God predetermined who would receive His grace each individual could make a personal choice for his own salvation infants were born in innate sin Calvinist doctrine could not be altered

	Robert Owen's New Harmony and Charles Fourier's phalanxes were both experiments in   utopian socialism evangelical revivalism religious communalism individualism economic classicism

	The most widely supported and successful reform movement in the early nineteenth century was   temperance communalism the Second Great Awakening abolition women's rights

	Immediate abolitionists argued that the best way to end slavery was by   colonizing freed slaves back to Africa winning political office freeing slaves' children as they reached maturity persuading Americans that slavery was a moral evil compensating slaveowners for freeing their slaves

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