Reformers Movements 1800s

What does the word “Reform” mean?

• To give women the right to vote

• To ban the selling, making, and buying of alcohol

• To end slavery

• To make changes in something (social, political, or economic institution or practice) to improve it.

The temperance movement warned people of the ____.

• dangers of alcohol

• weakness of reform

• evils of slavery

• need for education

Which statement best describes the period known as the Second Great Awakening?

• Americans realized they needed a new constitution.

• Americans became more interested in religion.

• Americans went to war over slavery.

• Americans refused to pay their taxes.

In the mid-1850s, most African American children could attend school.

• True

• False

Dorothea Dix worked to ____.

• end slavery

• improve life for the mentally ill

• start schools for the blind

• organize religious revivals

In the mid-1800s, Northern states allowed slaves.

• True

• False

Which publication was a novel about life under slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

• Freedom's Journal

• American Slavery as It Is

What are “conductors” to the Underground Railroad?

• Enslaved workers who operated train systems in the south.

• African Americans who worked on the railroad out west.

• People who operated trains.

• People who led enslaved people to the north.

____ is the most widely known African American abolitionist.

• John Russwurm

• Frederick Douglass

• David Walker

• Benjamin Lundy

The purpose of the Underground Railroad was to ____.

• bring fresh water to Southern communities.

• allow people to travel safely during wars.

• help enslaved people reach freedom in the North.

• transport people to new homes in Liberia.