Reform Era

Which one of these ladies was NOT involved in the suffrage movement?

• Dorthea Dix
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucretia Mott

Frederick Douglass contributed to the abolitionist movement by?

• He spoke and wrote about his early life as a slave
• He formed the abolitionist party and ran for President of the US
• He wrote legislation banning slave trade
• He established the underground railroad

how did the reform movement help care for disabled people

• New hospitals for ill people, deaf, and blind people
• Reform efforts were unsuccessful 
• Reform efforts led to new medical procedures
• Legislation created new procedures for health care

Abolitionists wanted to end what civil institution

• Slavery
• Womens Voting
• Care for the Disabled 
• Economic Reformations

Uncle Tom's Cabin, The North Star and The Liberator all concerned what?

• Opposing Slavery
• Opposing Abolition
• Supported Women's rights
• Supported Factory Reforms

This transcendentalist author wrote "Leaves of Grass" and is known as the father of American free verse.

• Walt Whitman
• Dr. Suess
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Emily Dickinson
• Harriet Tubman

How did the reform movement help the rights of women?

• Reform efforts did not gain the right to vote, but shortened the workday
• They were unsuccessful
• Allowed women to go to college
• By the end of the 19th century women had the right to vote. 

How did the art of Jon James Audubon contribute to understanding science?

• His study of birds allowed for new understanding of anatomy and animal behavior
• His painting of plants led to understanding of plant life
• He dissected humans and studied them.
• Paintings of land forms helped with the study of geology

How was the Hudson river school a distinctly American painting?

• Artists painted landscapes to show man's connection with nature
• Artists avoided realism
• Artists showed industrialism ruined the environment
• Artists connected greek and roman myths to America