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1. Themes of the Industrial revolution include which of the following, mark all that apply:
a. increased disparity of wealth
b. anti-immigration campaigns
c. Rise of the middle class and middle class ideal
d.Development of the separate spheres ideology
2. With the rise of the middle class during the Industrial revolution, social distinctions
were made between manual labor and those who no longer worked with their hands. The
rise of this ideal is referred to as ___________________.
A. Notions of respectability B. Notions of manual labor C. Notions of gentility
D.
Notions of class
3. "The Cult of Domesticity" refers to developments during the Industrial revolution based
on new conditions of family life and assumptions about men and women. Mark all that
apply:
a. Separation of work and home
b. Nativism
c. Biological difference
d. Manifest Destiny
4. The Benevolent Empire referred to a social movement during the 19th Century that
sought to impose moral discipline and Protestant religion on working class and
predominately new immigrant communities. The early reform movement that agitated
against alcohol consumption was led initially by:
a. Business Elite
b. Working class women
c. Upper class women
d. Working class men
5. A=True B=False By the 1830s, during the second phase of women's reform movements,
women such as Sarah Joseph Hale began challenging male prerogative and the exploitation
of women by the business class
6. The term "Bog Trotter" was a derogatory word applied to which of the following
immigrant groups during the 1840s and 1850s?
a. German
b. Angolan
c. Irish
d. Lutheran Dutch
7. Consequences of the market and industrial revolution between 1800 and 1850 include
which of the following, mark all that apply.
a. Although less wealth was being generated, it was being shared more equitably
b. An urban impoverished working class developed.
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c. New social constructs developed to further divide people by class.
d. The top ten percent of the population increased the share of the national wealth they owned
from 40-50 percent to 70-80 Percent.
8._______________ was responsible for establishing Hull House and she authored Democracy and
Social Ethics (1902) & Twenty years at Hull house (1910) in which she rejected idea that unrestrained
competition offered the best path to social progress and instead argued that in an atmosphere of
unrestrained competition individual well-being depends on the well-being of all.
a. Ida Tarbell
b. Jane Adams
c. Sarah Joseph Hale
d. Ida B. Wells
9.______________________ began the Anti-Lynching Crusade and revealed that lynching and the rape
justification was a device to eliminate African Americans who competed with white businesses or who
became to wealthy or powerful.
a. Ida B. Wells
b. Margaret Sanger
c. Perkins Gilman
d. Lucretia Mott
10._________________________Organized the American Birth Control Movement. Defying the law
she distributed birth control information and prophylactics actually importing the Mensinga
diaphragm from the Netherlands. Ultimately she made the discussion of birth control a respectable or
acceptable topic by reframing it as a health issue with profound economic and political significance.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Perkins Gilman
Emma Goldman
Margaret Sanger
Eleanor Roosevelt
11. The ____________________ Platform represented a political agenda to address poverty and
corruption of the gilded age with a vision to restore democracy and economic opportunity. Proposals
included a government control of currency, a graduated income tax, rural and urban worker solidarity,
and public ownership of rail roads.
a. Corporate
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Progressive
Liberal
12._________________argued that it was the government’s responsibility to protect the interests of
the majority against the excesses, corruption and exploitation of the minority and promoted
government regulation and intervention.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Progressives
Conservatives
Elitists
Grangers
13 Labor Demands of the Knights of Labor in 1869 included
a.
b.
c.
d.
8 hour wk day
Better wages and working conditions
Collective bargaining
Disability insurance
14. Feminists during the 19th Century argued that similarities existed between women and slaves
that defined their political, social and economic status. Mark all that apply.
A. Social constructs that defined them as biologically inferior to white men.
B. The denial of suffrage C. The deprivation of property D. Barring from most occupations or
advancement
15. A=True B=False During the early 19th C, the strongest appeal for emancipation of the enslaved
was for their removal from America and re-colonization of Africa. David Walker represented most
Black Africans when promoted this perspective through his "Appeal to Colored Citizens."
16. The society during the 1800s that was one of the first to begin promoting abolition while rejecting
colonization included which of the following.
A. The Boston Reform Society B. The American Colonization Society C. American Anti-Slavery Society
represented an integrated political movement. D. The Philadelphia slavery society
17. The following women organized the Seneca Fall's Convention, New York, in 1848, establishing the
women's rights movement. Mark all that apply:
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A. Lucretia Mott B. Eleanor Roosevelt C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton D. Dolly Madison