Exam 10: The Making of Middle-Class America

"I celebrate myself and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." This was written by

During the 1830s and 1840s the economic differences between the rich and the poor

Alexis de Tocqueville came to visit America because he thought that democracy was the wave of the future for European society.

The first effective state law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was passed by

Despite the obvious needs, there were no efforts to reform the traditional college curriculum in the early nineteenth century.

The Second Great Awakening began as a counteroffensive to overemotional religious revivals.

The American writer whose works are filled with examples of wild imagination and fascination with mystery, fright, and the occult is

When women sought to involve themselves in reform movements before the Civil War, they discovered that their roles as wives and mothers were major advantages in addressing the major social issues.

What your text labels "the third pillar of the emerging American middle class," alongside the family and church, which had neither colonial precedents nor European equivalents, was

Individual reformers who tried to care for the physically and mentally disabled were

In Jacksonian America private colleges

The mutual improvement societies which conducted discussions, sponsored libraries, lobbied for better schools, and presented lectures on a variety of topics were called

Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Explain the ideas of the major romantic authors and describe how they affected American culture. Cite specific examples of individual authors described in the text.

The communitarian group whose members were celibate, held their property in common, valued simplicity and industriousness, stressed equality of labor, and practiced a joyful and fervent religion was

Herman Melville's book which your text calls "one of the finest novels written by an American" is

Explain how education and middle-class culture were transformed in the early nineteenth century by efforts to create a truly American and democratic society.

During the 1830s and 1840s, most white Americans thought William Lloyd Garrison's views were

An important factor in encouraging the growth of the women's rights movement was the

" [C]hained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience," is the way which of the following described the deplorable conditions of insane asylums to Massachusetts state legislators?