Age of Reform I

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

- U.S. Constitution, 1865

1.    Which group achieved their goal with the passage of the above excerpt?

• Temperance

• Abolitionists

•    Transcendentalists

• Suffragists

The source pictured above helped to persuade Americans and others to

• support the spread of slavery into western states. 

• oppose the use of children as laborers in textile mills.

• support the political agenda held by abolitionists. 

• oppose the belief of Manifest Destiny.

“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 powers from the consent of the governed.”

 - Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

1.    The excerpt above was used to express the importance of –

• women’s rights

• temperance

•   education

• care of the disabled

“…different denominations would preach night and day, four or five days together…for three or four weeks.  I have seen more than 100 sinners fall like dead men under one powerful sermon…”

 - Peter Cartwright, The Backwoods Preacher

 

1.    Events like those described above influenced Americans to-

• encourage Congress to quickly pass the Fugitive Slave Law. 

•   support a variety of social reform movements. 

• persuade support for Nativist movements.

• a.    discouraged support of the temperance movement.

1.    The work of Dorthea Dix led to –

• education reform for rural America.

•   passage of temperance laws

•   the creation of the Declaration of Sentiments.

• better treatment of the mentally disabled.

·         Denied full equality of citizenship

·         Lacked voting rights

·         Unequal pay

·         Inferior status in society

 

1.    The box above outlines legal and social issues that fostered change for –

• transcendentalists

• women

• children

• abolitionists

1.    What was the significance of Seneca Falls, New York?

•   Birthplace of reformer, Dorthea Dix

•   Distribution center for abolitionist newspapers

• Meeting place for a women’s suffrage convention

•   Location of first hospital established for the disabled

·         Focus on morality

·         Promote social justice

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1.    Which of the following best completes the graphic organizer above?

• Second Great Awakening

• Hudson River School

• Urbanization and Industrialization

• a.    Nullification Crisis

·         Essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

·         Engaged in acts of civil disobedience 

·         Works included “Walden” and “Resistance of Government”

 

1.    The information in the box above can best be associated with –

•   Horace Mann – Education

• Frederick Douglass – Abolition

•   Sojourner Truth – Women’s Rights

• Henry David Thoreau – Transcendentalism

Which of the following best describes the origins of the abolitionist movement?

• Sojourner Truth delivering her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech

• William Lloyd Garrison launching an abolitionist newspaper.

• Quakers establishing a colony based on religious freedom.

•   Frederick Douglass delivering first-hand accounts of his life as a slave.