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Reform in the Gilded Age (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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"I hereby solemnly promise, GOD HELPING ME, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt Liquors, including Wine and Cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same."

National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Annual Leaflet, With Plans of Work for 1886 (Chicago: Union Signal Print, 1885)

The author of the excerpt most directly supports their argument by providing which of the following as evidence?

  • Statistical data on alcohol consumption and its economic effects

  • A moral appeal emphasizing religious duty and personal commitment

  • Firsthand accounts from individuals harmed by excessive drinking

  • A legal argument citing court cases that upheld local prohibition laws

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21 mark

"I hereby solemnly promise, GOD HELPING ME, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt Liquors, including Wine and Cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same."

National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Annual Leaflet, With Plans of Work for 1886 (Chicago: Union Signal Print, 1885)

The National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union had a major influence on the creation of which other reform movement?

  • The women’s suffrage movement

  • The Populist movement

  • The labor union movement

  • The Social Gospel movement

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31 mark

"I hereby solemnly promise, GOD HELPING ME, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt Liquors, including Wine and Cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same."

National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Annual Leaflet, With Plans of Work for 1886 (Chicago: Union Signal Print, 1885)

The reform that the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union is advocating in the passage was later enacted as a result of the

  • 21st Amendment

  •  Volstead Act

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Mann Act

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