Chapter 15: Lesson 1

Chapter 15: Lesson 1

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Multiple Choice

Why did many girls not attend school in the 1800s?

• Attendance of girls at schools was against the law.

• Girls felt embarrassed to attend school with boys.

• Parents felt that a wife and a mother did not need an education.

• Schools charged more for girls to attend.

Multiple Choice

What was Horace Mann’s opinion about education?

• He felt education was the key to economic opportunities.

• He felt that people with visual impairments had a right to be educated.

• He only wanted the plantation owners’ children to attend.

• He was opposed to education for anyone except for boys

Multiple Choice

Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?

• Dorothea Dix

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• George Catlin

• Thomas Gallaudet

Multiple Choice

Writers Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson were

• enslaved people.

• utopians.

• revivalists.

• transcendentalists

Multiple Choice

What were people called who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience?

• conscience-raisers

• naturalists

• reformers

• transcendentalists

Multiple Choice

Which author wrote Leaves of Grass?

• Emily Dickinson

• Herman Melville

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman

Class code

1852