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- (Q009) Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?
- (Q022) The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by
- (Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of
- (Q009) Which of the following was a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
- What's is the of meeting delicates from the American colonies that met in 1775?
- (Q012) The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities--such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities--numbered about
- John D. Rockefeller was a giant in which industry?
- (Q030) The Tariff of 1816 protected goods produced in the United States, especially
- (Q026) Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called
- (Q028) John Tyler was given numerous nicknames upon assuming the office of the presidency, including the title
- (Q029) The American Tract Society, the American Bible Society, and other groups flooded these areas with copies of the gospel and pamphlets promoting religious virtue.
- (Q001) Which of the following social reforms took place in American society before the Civil War?
- What document was signed and drafted that announced the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain?
- What attracted people to America's rapidly growing cities in the late 1800s?
- What men were untrained, part-time soldiers from each colony?
- Who said "Steel is king!" and made it happen?
- What invention made it practical to locate factories at the top of ten-story skyscrapers in the late 1800s?
- What were some other men that were trained and paid to fight at a minutesnotice?
- What simple change might have prevented the death of some of the 149 workers who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
- As businesses grew bigger after the Civil War, labor unions were organized to represent the interests of