Unit: Reforms & Culture

Which individual organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY; fought for women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights; and fought against alcohol?

• Susan B Anthony

• Horace Mann

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Frederick Douglass

This individual was an escaped slave and a leader of the abolitionist movement. He also published the anti-slavery newspaper called the North Star?

• Horace Mann

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

What were abolitionists trying to abolish (or get rid of)?

• education

• alcohol

• women's rights

• slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book that exposed the evils of slavery and helped gain support for the abolitionist movement. What was the name of the book?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

• The North Star

• American Temperance Society

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• a law that ended slavery

• a law that allowed Northerners to help slaves escape slavery

• a law that allowed Southerners to capture their runaway slaves

• a law that made slavery legal in the North

What was the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Abolitionist began to focus on the women's fight for voting rights

• Northerners who thought that the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement

• Southerners used the law to challenge the constitutionality of the abolitionist's goals

• Northerners agreed with the Southerners in support of slavery

Which newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison used religion to denounce (or put down) slavery as an evil (or sin)?

• The Liberator

• The North Star

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• American Temperance Society

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

What was Dorothea Dix trying to help change?

• the education system

• the banning of alcohol

• the treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners

• the treatment of animals

What was the main focus of the Women's Rights movement after the Seneca Falls Convention, in Seneca Falls, NY?

• to increase the pay of women workers

• to allow women to join labor unions

• to expand the number of women managers

• to gain the right to vote (or suffrage) for women