Economics

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Unit 5

• Economics Social Reform
• 1790-1860

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Social

• "Civil Disobedience," an essay that later
  influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
  King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist

• William Cullen Bryant.
• (B) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• (C) James Fenimore Cooper.
• (D) Henry David Thoreau.

D
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Social

• Early-nineteenth-century American families

• were becoming more loosely knit and less
  affectionate.
• (B) were getting smaller.
• (C) taught their children to be unquestioningly
  obedient.
• (D) usually allowed parents to determine choice
  of marriage partners.

B
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Economics

• As a result of the transportation revolution,

• division of labor became a thing of the past.
• (B) New Orleans became an even more important
  port.
• (C) each region in the nation specialized in a
  particular type of economic activity.
• (D) self-sufficiency became easier to achieve for
  American families.

C
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Social

• Women on the frontier were treated better than
  were women in Europe because

• they could not vote.
• (B) the law prohibited men from beating them.
• (C) there were so few women there.
• (D) their ideas of equality were well received by
  American men.

C
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Social

• Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge
  came through

• the writings of John Locke
• (B) the senses
• (C) Observation
• (D) an inner light

D
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Social

• Of the following , the most successful of the
  early-19th-century communitarian experiments was
  at

• Brook Farm, Massachusetts
• (B) Oneida, New York
• (C) New Harmony, Indiana
• (D) Seneca Falls, New York

B
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Social

• The most noteworthy southern novelist before the
  Civil War was

• William Gilmore Simms
• (B) John Greenleaf Whittier
• (C) James Russell Lowell
• (D) Oliver Wendell Holmes

A