Reform Movements

1. Which of the following statements about the Second Great Awakening is true?

• It began in New England in the mid-1600s.

• It limited the roles and participation of women in the church.

• It had a powerful influence on development of reform movements in the 1800s

• It was an intellectual movement that emphasized reason over superstition and faith.

Which statement if FALSE about women in the early British colonies?

• Women outnumbered men in the earliest settlements.

• Poor women came as indentured servants.

• Women sold themselves as brides to men in Jamestown.

• Women face greater health risks than men.

The political attempts to end slavery in the United States were known as the ________ movement?

• abolitionist

• suffrage

• temperance

• Second Great Awakening

Which word means to free someone from slavery?

• abolition

• emancipation

• temperance

• suffrage

The colony of ______________ was established to provide an opportunity for slaves to resettle in Africa.

• Liberia

• Niger

• Zaire

• Morocco

What organization supported the migration of free African-Americans to Africa?

• American Colonization Society

• American Anti-Slavery Society

• Society of Friends

• Daughters of Liberty

________________ kept slaves from carrying weapons or traveling.

• executive actions

• Jim Crow laws

• segregation

• slave codes

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Sarah Grimke

• Horace Mann

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Frederick Douglass

What former president fought for the abolition of slavery as a member of the House of Representatives?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Monroe

• William Henry Harrison

• John Quincy Adams

In what aspect of life in the early colonies did women first resist the control of men?

• Responsibilities in marriage

• Employment opportunities

• Religious practices

• Voting