STAAR- Reform (TAPS)

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

2016- Q8: Which of the following was an argument made against slavery in the Thirteen Colonies?

• Manufacturers argued that slavery discouraged the development of industry

• Farmers argues that using slave labor was expensive and inefficient

• Quakers argued that slavery violated Christian principles

• Puritans argued that the slave trade encouraged materialism

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited U.S society?

• Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients

• Doctors were required to get federal licenses to practice medicine

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals

• The government distributed land to poor people

• equal pay

• own property

• a public education

• vote

• They were dedicated to improving working conditions in factories

• They served as refuges for escaped slaves

• They attempted to expand suffrage

• They were devoted to creating ideal socities

• Thoreau uses reason to explain natural events that happen in the world

• Thoreau focuses on the role of science in changing the natural world

• Thoreau studies the relationship between nature and historical events

• Thoreau focuses on the relationship between humans and natural world

• Some Northerners were willing to defend the South's rights to continue slavery

• Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs

• Some abolitionists thought violence was necessary to end slavery

• Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular sovereignty

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 and disabled

• Suffrage

• Abolitionsist

• Temperamce

• Transcendentalist

• Because she was an influential First Lady

• Because she designed the nation's first flag

• Because she fought for women's suffrage

• Because she was the first woman elected to Congress