Reform Movement AA

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to -

• ban the spread of slavery to new territories

• decrease the consumption of alcohol

• gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons

• create a self-sufficient Utopian society

Which of these most contributed to the movement represented by this newspaper?

• Protestant preachers had denounced the institution of slavery as a sin.

• African-born slaves rebelled and overcame their owners on several Southern plantations.

• The liberation of the Africans on the ship Amistad revealed the evils of the slave trade.

• Economic changes made slavery less profitable for Southern slave-owners.

Which sign would most likely have been carried by an abolitionist?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which of these was an impact of the religious movement shown above known as the Second Great Awakening?

• Reformers challenged slavery, drunkenness and other social problems.

• More Americans felt able to resist the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament.

• Several states established their own state religions.

• Rural areas in the South introduced better forms of lighting.

Helped lead in prison reform

and treatment for mentally ill.

• Dorothea Dix

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Which reformer dedicated his/her efforts to implementing this strategy for improving society?

• Horace Mann

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Susan B. Anthony

What was the impact of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?

• It led to the formation of the Republican Party.

• It publicized the need for an expansion of women’s rights.

• It promoted the concept of Manifest Destiny.

• It revealed the poor treatment of Southern slaves.

Which abolitionists was the author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

• Sojourner Truth

Who was a leader of Women's rights?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

• Horace Mann

• Dorathea Dix

Who was responsible for reforming the treatment of prisoners and asylum patients?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Horace Mann

• Dorathea Dix

• Frances Willard