Pretest: Unit 1 Question 10 of 27
I do not believe that there is a country in the world where,
in proportion to the population, there are so few ignorant
and at the same time so few learned individuals. Primary
instruction is within the reach of everybody; superior
instruction is scarcely to be obtained by any. This is not
surprising; it is, in fact, the necessary consequence of what
I have advanced above.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
What is the central theme of this excerpt?
A. Sovereignty
B. Liberty
C. Laissez-faire
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D. Egalitarianism

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the authority to tax.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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