Antebellum Reform Quiz

Which literary movement, involving Thoreau and Emmerson, sought fulfillment through a communion with the natural world? 

• Pre-Raphaelite 
• Transcendentalists
• Lost Generation
• Beat Movement

Which perfectionist group sought to liberate women from the demands of male lust and from the traditional cult of domesticity roles through complex marriage which was often interpreted as "free love"?

• Shaker Movement
• Oneida Community
• New Harmony, Indiana
• Hudson River School

Which Second Great Awakening faith emerged from the revelation given to Joseph Smith in the burned-over district in New York?

• Unitarians
• Presbyterians
• Owenites
• Mormons

The Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 focused primarily on issues related to

• women's rights
• abolition
• penal reform
• education reform

Who was the black abolitionist that a fomer slave, that escaped to the North and then published a newspaper known at the North Star? 

• Sojouner Truth
• Elijah Lovejoy
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison

Which Antebellum reformer sought to overhaul the public school system in Massachusetts?

• Dorothea Dix
• Susan B. Anthony
• Horrace Mann
• Angelina Grimke

Which country in West Africa was created by the American Colonization Society, which promoted a back to Africa movement?

• Senegal
• Liberia
• Ghana
• Mali

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted...

• spiritual revival and the need for social reform
• the use of reason and scientific theory
• states' rights
• mercantilism and global trade

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?

• churches turned away from religion and focused on politics
• people were inspired to join reform movements
• religious leaders petitioned the government for funding
• churches promoted states' rights

This man started the abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator"

• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison 
• John C. Calhoun
• Andrew Jackson