Antebellum Reform

Antebellum Reform

Multiple Choice

When was the FIRST Great Awakening?

• 1630s-1640s

• 1730s-1740s

• 1830s-1840s

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT an impact of the FIRST Great Awakening?

• Undermined traditional sources of authority

• Caused an immediate declaration of independence from colonies

• Increase in religion inspired strong religious rhetoric of the American Revolution

• Contributed to the idea that people should be accountable for participation in government if they were accountable for their salvation

Multiple Choice

How did the Second Great Awakening influence the first half of the 19th century?

• immediately caused a Civil War between the North and South

• inspired reform initiatives to reshape society in the young US

• ensured women's equality in the 19th century

Multiple Choice

What did Education reformer, Horace Mann, believe about schools?

• Enslaved people should enter the public school system

• Schools be created that were state funded and mandatory

• Colleges should be developed

• Schools be privately funded and optional

Multiple Choice

What was the Temperance movement? It attempted to

• gain the right to vote for women.

• end slavery.

• reform mental institutions and prisons.

• abolish alcohol consumption.

Multiple Choice

Predict: What do these women have to do with the Declaration of Independence?

• borrowed its language and structure with revisions to include women

• burned it to protest women's oppression

• ancestors of the Committee of Five who spread awareness

Multiple Choice

Women assumed roles in all of the following reform efforts of the early 19th century EXCEPT

• Temperance.

• the American System.

• Abolition.

• women’s suffrage.

Multiple Choice

. . . . That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity [exemption]. Men of Sense in all Ages abhor [hate] those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex. Regard us then as Beings placed by providence under your protection and in immitation of the Supreem Being make use of that power only for our happiness. . . .

—Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776

Which document most directly addressed the concerns expressed by Abigail Adams in this passage?

• Federalist Papers drafted after the Constitutional Convention

• Monroe Doctrine drafted by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams

• Declaration of Sentiments drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention

• Emancipation Proclamation issued during the American Civil War

Open Ended

Which biography did you find most interesting? Why?