How Did Attitudes Toward Poverty and Crime Change in the Antebellum

question 51

Multiple Choice

How did attitudes toward poverty and crime change in the antebellum era?

• A) People believed that innate sinfulness caused poverty and led to a life of crime.
• B) Reformers blamed most of these problems on the rise of the factory system.
• C) New theories held that poor home environments, lack of discipline and bad parenting were the cause of rising poverty and crime.
• D) Americans began to believe that there was no way to reform criminals.
• E) All of these choices

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