Industrial Revolution and Reform Movements

What term was used to describe a person who wanted to see slavery come to an end?

• a liberator

• a federalist

• a loyalist

• an abolitionist

What do Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman have in common?

• They all started schools for African-American children.

• They all published newspapers supporting voting rights for women.

• They were all factory owners during the Industrial Revolution.

• They were all slaves who escaped and worked to end slavery.

This is an excerpt from a document written in 1848:

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among

these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the

governed.... The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the

establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

This document marks the start of which movement?

• abolition

• education reform

• temperance

• women’s rights

___________ and _____________ where some of the most prominent activist of the Women's Rights Movement

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Elena Ford

• Sojourner Truth, Dolly Regan

• Susan Carlie, Sojourner Truth

Many historians believe the __________ was the beginning of the modern American women's movement.

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Stanton Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Convention of Women

What was the purpose of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

• to help slaves escape

• to get revenge against former owners

• to describe what freedom is like

• to inform others about slavery

During the early 1800's many young women in New England were employed outside their homes as--

• crew members on cargo ships

• cloth weavers in textile mills

• staff reporters for local newspapers

• legal counselors in state courts

How did the invention of the Cotton Gin contribute to the expansion of the plantation system.

• By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton

• By increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton

• By increasing the profitability of slavery

• By reducing the demand for raw cotton

The introduction of interchangeable parts led directly to the-

• formation of the patent system

• creation of labor unions

• use of mass-production techniques

• eight-hour workday

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that prompted-

• spiritual revival and the need for social reform

• the use of reason and scientific theory

• states' rights and ggovernmental reform

• mercantilism and the development of global trade