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Chapter 10: The Making of Middle-Class America

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	Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visited America primarily to study the American system of manufacturing.    True  False

	Alexis de Tocqueville had special interest in America's cities and the prevalence of poverty there.    True  False

	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.    True  False

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

	The evangelical revivalism of the Second Great Awakening had a particular appeal to uprooted workers and middle-class women in America.    True  False

	Most of the leaders of the philanthropic and religious voluntary associations in early nineteenth-century America were ministers, lawyers, or merchants.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	Much of the opposition to the temperance movement's demand for total prohibition of alcoholic beverages came from Irish and German immigrants.    True  False

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

	Most abolitionists were moral perfectionists who demanded racial equality and dismissed the Constitution as a proslavery document.    True  False

	Most women's rights advocates began their reform careers as abolitionists.    True  False

	The arrival of the factory system of production diminished the husband's power within the family unit.    True  False

	The early nineteenth-century's women's rights movement's major issue was gaining women the right to vote.    True  False

	Many blacks were abolitionists long before the white movement began to attract attention.    True  False

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