Industrialization and Reform Corrections

How did Dorothea Dix's speech to the state legislature help to reform prisons?

• Punishments for mentally ill criminals were reduced

• Treatments for many mental diseases were developed

• Hospitals were persuaded to release mentally ill patients

• Politicians were convinced to create separate facilities for mental patients

The abolitionist movement evolved out of the-

• Great Awakening

• Industrial Revolution

• Harlem Renaissance

• Era of Good Feeling

To which of the following would abolitionists have objected the most?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman's effort

• Fugitive slave laws

• Missouri Compromise

Which factor best completes this diagram?

• New transportation systems

• Increased government regulation

• A decline in agricultural production

• The growth of labor unions

The free-enterprise economic system of the Unites States encourages-

• income equality

• market competition

• welfare protections

• government regulation

These factors played a major role in-

• Agricultural growth

• Militarization

• Westward growth

• Urbanization

Which of the following statements about the Lowell System is correct?

• It was utilized by the federal; government to fill vacant government positions

• It was a labor program utilized by textile mills

• It was essential to railroad construction in the West

• It represented an attempt to extend the right to vote to all white male citizens

Which of the following completes the diagram?

• Territorial expansion

• Expanded transportation

• Age of industrialization

• Innovations in technology

Which factor accounts for this trend?

• The Second Great Awakening motivated people to join reform movements

• Manifest Destiny inspired many people to become homesteaders

• Jacksonian Democracy allowed more people to vote in elections

• The Industrial Revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in cities