Lesson 26 Practice Quiz (Reform Movements)

The largest migration in United States history (140,000 people) occurred in 1844...

• on the Oregon Trail, from Independence, MO, to San Francisco, CA.

• with the opening of the Erie Canal in up-state New York.

• from Illinois to Utah by Mormons, after the death of Joseph Smith.

• known as the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee were forcibly removed from their tribal home.

The "Second Great Awakening" refers to ...

• an unprecedented number of college enrollments.

• a period of religious engagement connected with westward expansion.

• the name of the movement to abolish slavery.

• a European effort to encourage U.S. immigration.

Which of the following champions of suffrage (voting rights) was NOT a part of the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights?

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which First Lady (wife of the President) was known for advocating women's rights?

• Elizabeth Monroe

• Rachel Jackson

• Martha Washington

• Abigail Adams

Dorothea Dix championed the rights of ... after finding them to be "confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." (USHistory.org)

• people in mental institutions

• farm animals

• children working in factories

• slaves on plantations

All of the following campaigned for prison reform and the humane treatment of inmates EXCEPT

• Dorothea Dix

• Louis Dwight

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• Susan B. Anthony

What type of painting became the most famous during the era of westward expansion, especially those of the Hudson River artists?

• Biblical images

• portraits

• landscapes

• photographs

What movement was characterized by the idea that "people, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel" (Emerson)?

• the Hudson River School

• Transcendentalism

• Progressivism

• the Second Great Awakening

Which of the following writers was NOT an advocate of individualism and self-reliance through their writings from the 1830s to 1850s?

• Emily Dickinson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman

Around the 1830s and 1840s in America, many groups sought to form the "perfect" community.

• True

• False