Reform Movements Quiz

Who was the founder of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, in Boston in 1831?

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

What was the name of the anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes

• Life Among the Lowly

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

Who was a radical abolitionist who advocated immediate, uncompensated emancipation and civil equality for blacks?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Which event in 1848 organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States?

• Seneca Falls Convention

• National Trade Union Convention

• Temperance Movement Convention

• Lowell Female Labor Reform Association Convention

Who was the most influential of reformers, who became the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education and promoted a holistic change in public education?

• Horace Mann

• William H. McGuffey

• Emma Willard

• Lyman Beecher

What was the name of the organization founded in 1833 in opposition to slavery?

• New York Public School Society

• National Trade Union

• American Temperance Union

• American Anti-Slavery Society

Who was an escaped slave, who became a powerful abolitionist orator and captured his audiences with descriptions of his life as a slave?

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

Which woman established Troy University in New York, a Female Seminary, and fought for a profession in which females could be appreciated?

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Catherine Beecher

• Emma Willard

What was the name of the religious revival of the early 1800s that contributed to the reform impulse by emphasizing individual responsibility and perfection?

• Second Great Awakening

• Fourth Great Awakening

• Third Great Awakening

• First Great Awakening

Who was the leader of the National Trade Union, organized in 1834, which was created after the New York Trades Union called a convention of delegates from numerous city centrals?

• Horace Mann

• Lyman Beecher

• William H. McGuffey

• Ely Moore