Quiz - Reform Movement

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

What group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?

• American Indians, because they view the plight of slaves as similar to their own

• Quakers, because slavery contradicted their religious beliefs

• British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade

• Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?

• Churches turned away from public politics and focused on religious issues

• People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems

• Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women

• Politicians were encouraged to promote states rights rather than federal unity

This person wanted to reform education for poor children.

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Billie Elish

Who was closely associated with the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Maya Angelou

Sojourner Truth was an important speaker for which two movements?

• Labor Movement

• Women's Rights Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Abolitionist Movement

A person who works to end slavery is called...

• Suffragist

• Abolitionist

• Capitalist

• Humanist

A person who works for the right to vote is called a...

• Abolitionist

• Votist

• Suffragist

• Captitalist

A two day conference where suffragists met in New York to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women

• Declaration of Independence Convention

• Constitutional Convention

• Second Continental Congress

• Seneca Falls Convention

Why did William Lloyd Garrison publish The Liberator?

• He published this newspaper to help women gain more rights.

• He wrote this newspaper as an autobiography to share the horrors of slavery.

• He published this newspaper to share that slavery was wrong and should be abolished.

• He published this newspaper to show his support for slavery and slave labor in the South.