Social Reforms

The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. Which of the following reform groups utilized this?

• transcendentalists

• education

• abolitionists

• prison reform

Which of the following best describes the Second Great Awakening?

• a period that wanted to ban alcohol in America

• a time when focus was put on education to get the most out of society

• the push to end the institution of slavery in America

• a revival of religious feeling and belief starting in the 1790's

It was said that religion played an important role in the creation of 19th century social reforms. Which of the following was viewed as an evil in society?

• agriculture

• urbanization

• alcohol

• community prisons

Which of the following was NOT one of the changes women were pushing for in the 19th century?

• jobs

• the right to vote

• own land

• women were fighting for all of these

Education in the 19th century changed to provide

• private home tutoring

• free public schooling

• equal educational opportunities for all people groups

• specific job skills

Some states passed _________ to limit the sale of alcohol.

• Red laws
• Yellow laws
• Blue laws
• Green laws

The most famous Underground Railroad conductor was _________________________________.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriett Tubman

• Fredrick Douglass

Henry David Thoreau went to ___________ to protest unjust laws.

• crazy

• court

• heaven

• jail

The ________________ movement caused laws for regulating liquor,Maine to pass prohibition laws, and a drop in liquor sales.

• temperance

• temperature

• temporary

The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments demanded women’s right to ________________.

• talk

• vote

• be president

• have property