Reform Movements

Which reformer at the Seneca Falls Convention was uncomfortable with the idea of suffrage for women?

• Lucretia Mott

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

Answer explanation

Did you know that the Seneca Falls Convention was organized by two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who were denied seats at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London because of their gender?

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

• The Industrial Revolution began in the United States

• Americans became more interested in religion

• The American Civil War ended slavery

• The United States declared its independence from Britain

Answer explanation

The First Great Awakening was in the mid-1750s. This occured when many of the colonists joined a local church. There have been three to four "waves" of relgious thinking that historians call a great awakening.

Match the following

• William Lloyd Garrison

• 
• written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• 
• founded by the American Colonization Society

• 

Answer explanation

Abraham Lincoln may or may not have said to Stowe, when they met at the start of the Civil War "So this is the little lady who started this great war."

Who were the students at normal schools?

• People looking to become doctors

• People looking to become lawyers

• People looking to become engineers

• people looking to became teachers

Answer explanation

Normal schools were educational institutions established in the 19th and early 20th centuries to train high school graduates to be teachers.

Which is a main idea of transcendentalist thinkers?

• Prisoners deserve an education

• People should not drink alcohol

• individual conscience is important

• Higher education should be for all people

Answer explanation

The main idea of transcendentalist thinkers was that people should look within themselves for truth and meaning, rather than relying on external sources such as organized religion or government. They believed in the power of the individual to find their own path and to live in harmony with nature.

What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?

• Send free Black Americans to colonize parts of Africa

• Establish a new government in the United States

• Provide education to African Americans

• Expand slavery in America

Answer explanation

Some abolitionists saw it as a way to get rid of blacks, while some slaveholders saw it as a way to maintain slavery by removing free blacks from their midst. This controversy shows how difficult it can be to find solutions to complex social issues.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• United States

• France

• England

• China

Frederick Douglass was a powerful and eloquent abolitionist activist and speaker.

• True

• False

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 areas are free and which are slave?

a

b

c

slave

slave territory

free