The chief subject of discussion at the convention held in Seneca Falls, New  York was    
 revolutions abroad and their effect on the United States.    
 prison reform.    
 educational reform.    
 * women's rights.    
    

All of the following were characteristics of Irish immigrants to America  except:    
 They were poor.    
 They were Catholic.    
 They worked for low wages.    
 * They settled in western rural areas.    
        
All of the following were beliefs of the nineteenth century middle-class  reformers except:    
 They could create the perfect community on earth.    
 Human nature was basically good.    
 * Small-scale, sincere responses to social problems could work.    
 They were morally certain of what was right.    
    
An important common denominator in the public education, temperance, anti- prostitution, and asylum reform movements was    
 working-class leadership.    
 * female participation and leadership.    
 leadership by evangelical ministers.    
 southern support.    
    

The efforts of Dorothea Dix led to better treatment for     
 alcoholics.    
 orphans.    
 * the insane.    
 criminals.    
    

The middle class     
 * applied new notions of morality to various social movements.    
 recognized that human nature was basically evil.    
 realized that all humans knew what was right.    
 allowed members of society to be reformed only when they felt it necessary.    
    

The most successful of the nineteenth-century communitarian movements was     
 Oneida.    
 * Mormonism.    
 New Harmony.    
 the Shaker community.    
    

The American Colonization Society     
 * focused on sending blacks back to Africa.    
 was a group dedicated to helping blacks economically.    
 wanted an immediate end to slavery.    
 lobbied to allow free blacks to vote.    
    
"Taking the pledge" meant     
 * vowing never to drink alcohol.    
 promising to contribute money to the church.    
 committing oneself to the ministry.    
 adopting a life of celibacy.