Lydia Finney established the New York Moral Reform Society in 1834 in order to __________
A) criminalize prostitution
B) support alcoholics
C) abolish slavery
D) fight for equal pay rights
A
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Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to
A. resist external social pressures to assimilate. B. lose faith in the United States due to the hardships they experienced. C. hold on to their old ethnic habits. D. break from their traditional culture. E. return to the Old World for good.
The Confederacy worked to gain recognition from __________
A) Spain and the Netherlands B) Britain and France C) the independent South American nations D) Austria and Russia
New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because
a. most Americans considered Italian, Greek, or Jewish culture inferior to their own. b. many New Immigrants attempted to convert Americans to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or Judaism. c. in many New Immigrant families, women were kept in distinctly subordinate roles. d. New Immigrants were often more politically loyal to their homelands than to the United States. e. their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical.
The Provisional Government lost legitimacy when it
a. allowed the Tsar to abdicate. b. destroyed the Orthodox Church. c. kept Russia in the war. d. developed a dictatorial government. e. used the army against soldiers who had abandoned the fighting at the front.