Describe the motives and goals of early nineteenth-century moral reformers. What social problems did they identify with prostitution and "heavy drinking"?
What will be an ideal response?
Goals: get people to adopt more godly personal habits, observe the Sabbath, read the Bible, etc.; curb the resort to immoral practices in society, prostitution, overuse of alcohol.
Problems: crime; poverty; disruption of family life; inefficient and unproductive labor.
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A) There was no evidence that Carrie Buck had below-average intelligence. B) Carrie Buck was an African American sharecropper. C) The Supreme Court ruled in Carrie Buck's favor. D) Carrie Buck was accused of aggravated assault.
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A) He abandoned the phalanx formation as too ineffective and inefficient. B) He made use of cavalry contingents in breaking the opposing line of battle. C) His warriors used a longer thrusting spear, double that of the Greek hoplite. D) He made use of engineers who designed catapults to destroy enemy fortifications. E) His infantrymen carried smaller shields and shorter swords than Greek hoplites.
What made the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado so atrocious?
A) Most of the victims were defenseless Cheyenne women and children whose bodies were scalped and mutilated. B) Federal agents intentionally gave the Cheyenne tribe blankets infected with smallpox, which led to many deaths in a short amount of time. C) Over 800 Cheyenne men were gunned down while they were hunting buffalo. D) Colonel John M. Chivington's entire military force was ambushed and killed by Cheyenne warriors.