Reform Movement

Which of these was an impact of the religious movement shown above known as the Second Great Awakening?

• Reformers challenged slavery, drunkenness and other social problems.

• More Americans felt able to resist the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament.

• Several states established their own state religions.

• Rural areas in the South introduced better forms of lighting.

Helped lead in prison reform

and treatment for mentally ill.

• Dorothea Dix

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Which reformer dedicated his/her efforts to implementing this strategy for improving society?

• Horace Mann

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Susan B. Anthony

What was the impact of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?

• It led to the formation of the Republican Party.

• It publicized the need for an expansion of women’s rights.

• It promoted the concept of Manifest Destiny.

• It revealed the poor treatment of Southern slaves.

Which abolitionists was the author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

• Sojourner Truth

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

This leader inspired followers of the abolitionist movement by-

• writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

• publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star

• organizing the Underground Railroad

• becoming the first African American senator

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

• own a firearm
• vote in political elections
• practice your religion
• free speech

Which suffragist helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

• Alice Paul

• Elizabeth Cady Staton

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Abigail Adams

Which invention contributed to the expansion of slavery in the South?

• mechanical reaper
• steam boat
• cotton gin
• interchangeable parts