How Did Attitudes Toward Poverty and Crime Change in the Antebellum

Multiple Choice

How did attitudes toward poverty and crime change in the antebellum era?

A) People believed that innate sinfulness caused poverty and led to a life of crime.
B) Reformers blamed most of these problems on the rise of the factory system.
C) New theories held that poor home environments, lack of discipline and bad parenting were the cause of rising poverty and crime.
D) Americans began to believe that there was no way to reform criminals.
E) All of these choices