Reforming Society Test Review (Chapter 9)

Who was a popular revivalist who addressed his crowds through firefly sermons and emphasized individuals’ power to reform themselves?

• Charles Grandison Finney

• Lyman Beecher

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

The leader of the transcendental movement was:

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Frederick Douglass

• Lyman Beecher

True or False: Transcendentalists believed that humans were naturally good.

• True

• False

True or False: Frederick Douglass protested the Mexican War by refusing to pay his taxes.

• True

• False

The temperance movement was an organized campaign to promote women's suffrage.

• True

• False

The demand for tax-supported public education ran into strong opposition.

• True

• False

Education reform owed much of its eventual success to reformer Horace Mann.

• True

• False

Harriet Beecher Stowe made a significant impact on prison reform.

• True

• False

Massachusetts jails did not need reform. The conditions were clean and humane when Dorothea Dix visited in 1841.

• True

• False

Emancipation means "freeing of."

• True

• False