Pageant 17 Ch 14 Stimulus Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a piece of evidence used by Howe to support his claim in the third paragraph of the excerpt about religious organizations in the early 19th century?
Members of the Evangelical United Front employed more people than the post office did
A piece of evidence used by Howe in the second paragraph of the excerpt to support his argument about the goals of prison reform was that prison reformers
Intended to use prisons to rehabilitate criminals
The first free public education system in the United States began in which of the following colonies?
Massachusetts
Based on the excerpt, the westward migration by the Mormons in 1830s and 1840s was most likely motivated by the
Need to take refuge from persecution
The concerns articulated by Dorothea Dix in the excerpt above were most similar to those of
Progressives in the early 1900s.
Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?
Supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment
Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most likely reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?
The emergence of a national culture
Which of the following antebellum-era historical developments was least likely to have spurred efforts such as those described in the excerpt above
The progress toward a unified new national culture
Which of the following describes a piece of evidence used by Howe to support his overall argument about the motivations of religious reformers?
They desired to teach people personal autonomy
The efforts described in the excerpt above can best be understood in the context of
attempts to match democratic political ideals with social realities
Stevens believes public education would provide support for
democratic government
Which of the following developments best represents a logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
the expansion of participatory democracy in the Progressive Era
The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that
women should focus on the home and the domestic sphere
the goals of the mormons, as described in the excerpt, were MOST LIKE the goals of which of the following colonial groups.
Puritans in New England
The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?
The Second Great Awakening
Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?
The formation of voluntary organizations and reform efforts
Stevens disagrees with those who oppose free public education because
it will result in increased taxes