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APUSH: Guide Questions (Pages 301-313)
New Social Classes and Cultures
The Business Elite (Pages 301-302)
1.
How did the Industrial Revolution shatter the traditional rural social order?
2.
How did the Industrial Revolution impact the urban elite?
3.
How did government tax policies benefit the wealthy?
The Middle Class (Pages 302-304)
4.
Who made up the antebellum middle class?
5.
Describe the life of the urban middle class during this time period.
6.
What became a central theme of American popular culture?
Urban Workers and the Poor (Pages 304-305)
7.
Who made up the urban poor during the Antebellum Period? Describe their
lives.
The Benevolent Empire (Pages 305-306)
8.
What was the Benevolent Empire?
9.
How did the Benevolent Empire set out to improve society?
10.
What role did women have in the Benevolent Empire?
11.
Who opposed the work of the Benevolent Empire? Why?
Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalism and Reform (Pages 306-310)
12.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney? What made his ministry unique?
13.
What was Finney’s central message? Who did it attact?
14.
What reform movements were influenced by Finney’s message?
15.
What was the American Temperance Society? What methods did they
incorporate?
16.
What did Evangelical reformers celebrate as the moral foundation of Athe
American work ethic?
Immigration and Cultural Conflict (Pages 310-311)
17.
Why was Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) significant?
18.
What was the impact of railroads on the nation’s economy?
The Growth of Cities and Towns (Pages 297-301)
19.
What different types of cities emerged between 1820 and 1860, and what
caused their growth?