Reformers

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.

The U.S. religious revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that contributed to many reform movements was called

• The Enlightment

• The Reformation

• The First Great Awakening

• The Second Great Awakening

Which of these was the name of religious meetings, often held outdoors, that took place in the United States in the early 1800s?

• revivals

• reformations

• conferences

• councils

"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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—Seneca Falls,1848

The excerpt above is from the Declaration of Sentiments which was written at the first women's rights convention which took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. This declaration was modeled after which significant document?

• the Mayflower Compact

• the Bill of Rights

• the Articles of Confederation

• the Declaration of Independence

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were involved in which reform movement before they became involved in the women's rights movement?

• the temperance movement

• the expansionist movement

• the transcendentalist movement

• the abolitionist movement

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