Industrial Revolution and Reform Movements

How did women joining groups like Temperance, abolition, and suffrage organizations effect society?

• provided women jobs

• expanded the role of women in social reforms

• caused women to move to rural areas of the nation

• inspired them to become teachers out west

Which statement BEST describes the role the Seneca Falls Convention played in the women’s suffrage movement?

• It was the convention that expanded women’s suffrage to other countries.

• It was the convention that approved the 19th amendment.

• It was the convention that first organized a movement toward women’s suffrage in the United States.

• It was the convention that led to the abolitionist movement.

How did Frederick Douglass emerge as an abolitionist leader?

• He was a businessman who refused to do business in the South as a protest against slavery.

• He was a politician who knew people in power and used his connections to fight against slavery.

• He was an escaped slave who told the story of his life first as a speaker and then as an author.

• He was a slaveowner who changed his mind about slavery and published the first anti-slavery newspaper in the United States.

In the late 19th century, how did the growth of industry affect American society?

• The percentage of Americans living in urban areas increased.

• Population centers shifted from the Northeast to the South.

• Restrictions on immigration created a more homogeneous culture.

• The United States experienced the disappearance of the traditional family farm.

Which thesis (big idea) statement is supported by the graph above?

• In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the population distribution shifted as the urban population began to increase more dramatically than the rural population.

• Most immigrants to the United States in the late 19th century settled in rural areas.

• By the early 20th century, the population of cities grew while the population in rural areas declined.

• The population center of the United States moved westward in the late 19th and early 20th

  centuries.

In the late 19th century, inventions such as the mechanized reaper and the steel plow made farming more efficient. What impact did the introduction of farm machinery have on American farms in the 19th century?

• More workers were needed to run the new machines.

• Large farms increased their output and supplied food to eastern cities.

• Wages for unskilled farm workers increased.

• The high cost of the machines made farming unprofitable.

Schools that are paid for by taxes and managed by the local government for the benefit of the general public is called...

• private schools

• common law schools

• public schools

• reform schools

What did Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

• founded an organization of women that worked together to educate people to become teachers

• spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill

• brought America's attention to the need for education reform for women

• fought Congressmen for equal rights for Native Americans

What was one major impact of this novel?

• The profits from this novel funded early labor organizations.

• Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves

• The Supreme Court overturned fugitive slave laws.

• Support grew for the abolitionist movement