Reform Era Review

What event was held to promote women’s rights in 1848?

• The March on Washington
• The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
• The Rally in Hyde Park
• The Seneca Falls Convention in New York

At the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the ______________ was written.

• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Sentiments
• Treaty of Paris
• Constitution

How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?

• It showed Northerners the ugliness and brutality of slavery.
• It provided no credibility to the movement
• It taught many slaves how to read
• It actually hurt the movement by upsetting Southerners

The organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society -

• Suffrage
• Prison Reform
• Women's Rights movement
• Wilmot Proviso

She was the leading figure of the prison reform movement:

• Dorothea Dix
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony

- An escaped slave.
- Delivered “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
- Leader in the Women's Rights and Abolitionist movement.

• Dorothea Dix
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony

- Leading figure of the Women's Rights movement.
- Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
- Fought for women's suffrage.

• Dorothea Dix
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony

This movement believed your should:
1. Question societies rules
2. Be original and true to yourself
3. Get out and experience nature

• Abolition
• Second Great Awakening
• Transcendentalism
• Education

Which of the following was a problem that helped instigate the need for social reforms?

• alcoholism was destroying families
• prisons were poorly run
• children lacked proper education
• all of the above

What is temperance?

• not drinking alcohol
• the study of temperatures
• a religious belief that says your temper controls your fate
• the right to vote