Reforms and Reforms

Which leader was a former New York slave who spoke on abolition, women's rights, and prison reform?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia Mott

• Frederick Douglass

Social reform leaders around the time of the Second Great Awakening like Horace Mann would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

• We need more private schools in America.

• Prayer should be mandatory in American schools.

• Attendance should be voluntary at school.

• We need to create a public school system.

"Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country . . . in view of the unjust laws above mentioned . . . oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these Unites States."—Seneca Falls, The Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

The phrase "their most sacred rights" from this excerpt is most likely addressing

• a slave's right to freedom.

• a woman's right to vote.

• the right to free speech.

• women's right to equal pay.

"Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country . . . in view of the unjust laws above mentioned . . . oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these Unites States."—Seneca Falls, The Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

The phrase "their most sacred rights" from this excerpt is most likely addressing

• a slave's right to freedom.

• a woman's right to vote.

• the right to free speech.

• women's right to equal pay.

Which of the following religious groups strongly supported the abolition of slavery and founded the world's first anti-slavery society in 1775?

• Quakers

• Mormons

• Catholics

• Puritans

Who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

Which of the following women was one of the organizers of the women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848?

• Dorothea Dix

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Candy Stanton

Which of these people was an escaped slave who frequently gave speeches about his experience as a slave in an effort to have slavery abolished?

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

What was the name of the newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison published in order to spread his anti-slavery ideas?

• The Pennsylvania Gazette

• The Democratic Review

• Common Sense

• The Liberator

Which former slave helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Nat Turner