Reform Movements of the 1800s

The reform efforts of Dorothea Dix during the mid-nineteenth century led to

• improved education for immigrant children

• the creation of worker safety regulations

• the expansion of suffrage for women

• improved facilities for the mentally ill, incarcerated, and disabled

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

Horace Mann

Dorothea Dix

William Lloyd Garrison

The above are all associated with which type of reform?

• democratic

• economic

• social

• political

Who worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton for women's suffrage?

• Susan B Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

• Thurgood Marshall

• Sacagawea

Which of the following was born into slavery, escaped to the North, and became one of the most famous abolitionists in the United States?

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Helen Keller

• Frederick Douglass

These leaders were part of which social reform movement?

William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass,

Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• temperance

• religion

• education

• abolition

Who made this statement?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Phillis Wheatley

The theme represented in this painting is most associated with —

• the nineteenth-century temperance movement

• books and songs supporting the nativist movement

• the works of artists from the Hudson River School

• the nineteenth-century industrial boom

What was one effect of the cotton gin in the United States?

• Improved soil fertility

• Expansion of mercantilism

• Increased efficiency of crop irrigation

• Expansion of the plantation system

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

• Cities grew rapidly.

• Demand for artisans increased.

• Farms experienced a drought.

• Government regulation of factories increased.