STAAR Review: Day 8 Reform

What was the goal of the Temperance movement?

• Provide education for all children

• To limit the comsumption of alcohol

• Abolish slavery in America

• Provide better conditions for prisoners.

The speaker quoted above was a supporter of the movement to -

• end the international slave trade

• establish strict limits on immigration

• expose corruption in the federal government

• discourage the consumption of alcoholic beverages

Match the following

• Second Great Awakening

• Refused to pay taxes in protest against slavery

• Horace Mann

• Seneca Falls Convention called for women’s suffrage and equality

• Henry David Thoreau

• Believed education reform was essential for a successful society

• Women’s rights movement

• Encouraged people to be more religious; inspired other reform movements

What is a defining characteristic of the reform era?

• The U.S. acquired more land to improve the economy.

• Regions of the U.S. disagreed over slavery.

• The Founding Fathers created the U.S. Constitution.

• Efforts were made to improve conditions in society.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) William Lloyd Garrison

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(b) Dorothea Dix

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(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Advocated for prison reform and better care for the disabled

• Helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls

• Published The Liberator

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

Match the following

• Second Great Awakening

• Helped runaway slaves make it North along the Underground Railroad

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Time when people worked to improve society

• Reform era

• Spiritual revivals; inspired people to become involved in reform efforts

• Harriet Tubman

• Helped gained support for the abolitionist movement

Match the following

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Helped runaway slaves make it North along the Underground Railroad

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Fought for women’s suffrage; helped write the Declaration of Sentiments

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Published The Liberator newspaper

• Harriet Tubman

• Meeting organized for women’s suffrage and equality

This question has two parts.

Part A

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix impacted American society?

• The government distributed land to those with a criminal record.

• States passed harsher laws for those accused of crimes while in prison.

• Mental health facilities were established to treat patients.

• Building codes were changed to improve the safety of inmates.

Part B

Which statement provides evidence for the answer to Part A?

• “…many men and women who are chained or caged.”

• “Injustice is also done to convicts…”

• “…punishment that is not recognized by our statues and is what the criminal ought not to be called…”

• “The confinement of the criminal and the insane in the same building goes against the good order…”