Reform Era

Who dedicated their life to helping the imprisoned?

• Mott

• Dix

• Thoreau

• Douglass

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

The North Star was a newspaper that spread news of slavery and was written by

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

Who was behind the 19th Century effort to make attendance in public schools a requirement for every child in the U.S.?

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

• Susan B. Anthony

• John James Audubon

What event was held to promote women’s rights in 1848?

• The March on Washington
• The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
• The Rally in Hyde Park
• The Seneca Falls Convention in New York

The organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society -

• Suffrage
• Prison Reform
• Women's Rights movement
• Wilmot Proviso

She was the leading figure of the prison reform movement:

• Dorothea Dix
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony

What is temperance?

• not drinking alcohol
• the study of temperatures
• a religious belief that says your temper controls your fate
• the right to vote

While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…

• Publishing a novel about slavery
• The reform of public education
• Providing healthcare to the impoverished
• Rewriting the constitution

Frederick Douglass

• a writer who urged people to live simply
• an ex-slave who was an abolitionist
• the right of women to vote