Reform Movements

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to — 

• ban the spread of slavery to new territories 
• decrease the consumption of alcohol
• gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons
• create a self-sufficient utopian society

Who was an education reformer? 

• Dorothea Dix
• Horace Mann
• Elizabeth Cady Staton
• W.E.B. Du Bois

Abolitionists were Americans who wanted to end

• Slavery
• discrimination against women
• immigration
• imprisonment for debt

Dorthea Dix was one of the leaders of which movement?

• Temperance Reform Movement
• Education Reform Movement
• Prison Reform Movement

The right to vote is known as ______

• veto

• repeal

• suffrage

• abolish

I was the white abolitionist who founded the newspaper The Liberator, who am I? 

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Henry David Thoreau
• Frederick Douglass
• George Washington

  I worked to reform the prison system and the treatment of the mentally ill, who am I? 

• Horace Mann
• Dorothea Dix
• Harriet Tubman
• Henry David Thoreau

Groups that helped provide better working conditions and improve child labor.

• Labor Unions

• Education reformers

• Craft Guilds

• The Society of Friends

Which was a societal problem associated with the temperance movement?

• Alcohol was very expensive in the 1800's

• Many states did not allow the sale of alcohol

• Husbands drinking too much affected the entire family

• Wives and children could not earn enough money on their own

How did labor unions fight for better working conditions?

• Child workers were used to get sympathy from the public, who demanded action.

• Unions held protests at business owners homes and threatened their families.

• They helped workers find better jobs with higher pay.

• Unions held strikes to force business owners to provide better working conditions.