Reform and Abolition

According to legend when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time he remarked, "So you're the little women who wrote the book that started this Great War." Which of the following best explains why Lincoln might have made this statement?

• The book provided an economical basis for the plantation system.

• The book caused common people to rebel against unfair taxes.

• The book explained the social justification for social classes.

• The book addressed the controversial issue of slavery.

Which of the following quotes best describes the contributions made by Harriet Tubman?

• "She made numerous voyages back into the South to rescue her people without fear of her well-being."

• "She was a leader of the women suffrage movement and establishing the Seneca Falls Convention."

• "She wrote letters to the founding fathers calling for them to remember the ladies when they created our government."

• "She organized the women in the South to manage the plantations while the men were fighting in the war."

"She helped to establish the National American Women Suffrage Association. She tried to vote in the 1872 Presidential election, was arrested, convicted and ordered to pay a fine, which she refused. Her trial was a major movement in the struggle for women's suffrage."

The quote above best reflects the contributions of --

• Sojourner Truth

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorthea Dix

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

--Sojourner Truth Speech at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

From the excerpt above it can be concluded that the message of Sojourner Truth's speech was that--

• slaves were given less freedoms than their white counterparts

• a black woman should be granted the same rights as a white woman

• religion and faith both played a major role in the daily life of a slave

• white women were granted citizenship while black women weren't

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and hundreds of other women came together in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention. Out of this convention emerged the Declaration of Sentiments which called for--

• voting rights to extend to all men regardless of race

• complete and immediate abolition of slavery

• equal treatment and protection for women under the law

• equal pay for immigrant workers in textile factories

The society mentioned in the graphic above would most likely contain members of which of the following movements.

• Women's Rights

• Abolitionists

• Temperance

• Prison Reform

Which of the following quotes below would have most likely been said by a leader of the abolitionist movement?

• "I am for the complete and immediate emancipation of the millions of humans being kept in bondage."

• "Slavery is a necessary evil, it is like holding a wolf by the ears. You don't like it, but you don't dare let it go."

• "The African slave is no different than the cattle in the field or the ox and mule we use to plow the ground."

• "We depend on the slave for our entire economy...if you get rid of the slave you leave us with no economic hope."

"After returning from a trip to Great Britain where she was introduced to the lunacy (mental ill) reform movement she conducted investigations in Massachusetts of the care for the insane poor. She published her findings in a scathing report to the state legislature and lobbied to create mental hospitals."

The woman described in the excerpt above was --

• Dorthea Dix

• Lucretia Mott

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Horace Mann was a legislator from Massachusetts, but it was not until he was appointed as the secretary of the board of education that he engrossed himself in work that was to make him famous. As the head of the board of education he instituted numerous reforms, of which one of the most significant was --

• to shorten the length of the school year to coincide with the harvest time

• have equal but separate school facilities for black and white students

• to establish teacher training programs designed specifically for women

• providing a free public education for all white males paid for by taxes

Which of the following newspaper headlines is announcing a meeting led by those in support of women's rights?

• "Gathering of Abolitionists at the Maryland Dry-docks at 8 p.m.

• "Suffrage convention this evening at the Old Towne Hall"

• "Temperance Meeting at the Green Dragon Tavern on Saturday"

• " Conference of Transcendentalists to be held Monday at Walden Pond"