Unit 4, Topic 1-Reform Movements (Ch 9)

What actions did women take to get more rights in the early 1800s?​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​

• boycott businesses
• speak out in court
• mail letters to member of congress
• refuse to pay income taxes

What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on America?

• It showed people how terrible slavery was

• It caused the start of the Civil War

• It created more violence against enslaved people

• It reduced the threat of violence against enslaved people.

Which statements describe Harriet Tubman?​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• she published an anti-slavery newspaper
• she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad
• she gave speeches in support of women's suffrage
• she was an abolitionist
• she escaped slavery

Which person is described in the list below?

• went to prison for calling a slave trader a robber

• wrote an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator to end slavery everywhere

• used The Liberator to bring attention to the plight of slaves and sway public opinion

• argued for a complete and immediate end to slavery, with no compromises

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Match the contribution to the reformer

• worked for women's suffrage

• Dorothea Dix

• wrote about the hardships of slavery

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• improved conditions for the mentally ill

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What reform movements does this topic cover?

• women's rights movement

• anti-immigration movement

• anti-secession movement

• abolition movement

What right were women fighting for in the early 1800s?

• right to freedom of speech

• right to attend to religious ceremonies

• right to equal pay

• right to vote in elections

What do these people have in common?

• Harriet Tubman
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• William Lloyd Garrison

• all work for the abolition of slavery

• all work for reform and rights and freedoms

• all work for prision reform

• all work for women's rights

The Declaration of Sentiments was presented at

• an anti-slavery meeting

• the Senca Falls Convention

• a Congressional hearing on prison reform

• a state board of education meeting

Horace Mann

• believed education should be free for all Americans

• stated teaching methods needed to be improved

• stated only children in the North should be educated

• believed children who were not Christians should not have a free education