SSUSH7: Early Reform

Which of these is TRUE of the temperance movement at the beginning of the 1800s in America

• The movement's goal was to change the US Constitution.

• The movement called for the total ban of all intoxicating liquors.

• The movement succeeded in getting alcohol banned across the country.

• The movement believed people should decrease the amount of alcohol they drank.

One of the major inspirations for the social reform movements of the 1840s and 1850s America came from

• The Enlightenment

• The Jungle

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Second Great Awakening

Which statement BEST describes women's suffrage for much of the first century of the United States' history?

• the federal government barred women from voting

• women were allowed to vote in most northern states

• most state Constitutions did not address the issues of women's suffrage

• women could vote only if their husbands gave them legal permission to do so

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was crucial in

• the immediate passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• allowing women the right of suffrage in South Carolina.

• causing the women's suffrage to be ignored until after World War II.

• elevating the cause of women's rights to an issue of national concern.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are MOST associated with what social issue during the 19th Century?

• Women's equality

• Abolition of slavery

• the temperance movement

• increased public education

Horace Mann is MOST associated with what issue during the 19th Century?

• child labor

• prison reform

• education reform

• women's suffrage

William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, are associated with which of these movements?

• Prohibition

• Abolitionist

• Manifest Destiny

• Education reform

Frederick Douglass was an advocate for

• abolition

• conservation

• prohibition

• temperance

Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the United States during the early- to mid-1800s?

• the steel plow

• the cotton gin

• the mechanical reaper

• the combine harvester

The Abolition Movement largely coincided with what major American religious movement?

• The Restoration Movement

• the Evangelical Movement

• the First Great Awakening

• the Second Great Awakening