Discuss the roots of the reform era in antebellum America, the types of reform pursued, and the motivations of the reformers
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The impulse to reform in the 1830s had many causes: religious, philosophical, literary, economic, and psychological. Reform efforts included creation of utopian communities, temperance, improving health, humanizing asylums and prisons, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. In various reform societies, Americans found jobs, purpose, spouses, and relief from the uncertainty of a changing world.
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A) cancel its prewar debt to British merchants. B) observe the rights of Indians living west of the Appalachian Mountains. C) restore the rights and property of American loyalists. D) give up its fishing rights off the coast of Eastern Canada.
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New Imperialism most commonly took the form of
a. capital investment in a less developed economy. b. missionary movements to spread Christianity. c. direct political control over the colony. d. resettlement of Europeans in the colony.
Which of these led the way in exploration in the 1400s?
A) Spain B) France C) England D) Portugal