Unit 4.3-Reform Movements

What did Dorothea Dix want to improve?

• Shelters for pets
• Equality for African Americans
• Conditions in prisons
• Food distribution

What event in upstate New York 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

What is the Second Great Awakening?

• Party
• Temperance Movement
• Speech
• Religious Movement

A social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

• Charles Finney

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

Which of the following was a problem that instigated the reforms?

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

organized attempts to improve conditions of life

• social reform
• revival
• declaration of sentiments
• fugitive slave act

Abolitionists were Americans who wanted to end

• Slavery
• discrimination against women
• immigration
• imprisonment for debt

Why were reforms necessary during the 19th century?

• Industrial Revolution brought progress but deepened poorer living
• they were not necessary and wasted valuable resources
• Necessary because the Industrial Revolution destroyed America
• Not necessary caused more harm than good.

What is temperance?

• abstinence from alcoholic drink
• the study of temperatures
• a religious belief that says your temper controls your fate
• the right to vote

While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…

• Publishing a novel about slavery
• The reform of public education
• Providing healthcare to the impoverished
• Rewriting the constitution