Reform & Culture - STAAR Review (2013-2023)

Which term best completes this excerpt?

• Second Great Awakening

• temperance movement

• Era of Good Feelings

• abolitionist movement

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted ---

• spiritual revival and the need for social reform

• the use of reason and scientific theory

• states' rights and governmental reform

• mercantilism and the development of global trade

A tourist would most likely go to the location shown on the map to visit ---

• the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Women's Rights National Historical Park

• Historic Jamestowne in Colonial National Historical Park

• Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park

• George Washington's Headquarters in Valley Forge National Historical Park

Why did Congress honor this woman by putting her on a coin?

• Because she was an influential First Lady

• Because she designed the nation's first flag

• Because she fought for women's suffrage

• Because she was the first woman elected to Congress

Which contributions are correctly matched with the leading reformers in U.S. history?

Select THREE correct answers.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe: Wrote about the hardships of slavery

• Sojourner Truth: Encouraged payments to plantation owners for their lost property

• Dorothea Dix: Worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill

• Harriet Tubman: Wrote an autobiography of her years of misery under slavery

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Led efforts to promote women's right to vote

Which woman fought to create legislation to help the people described in this excerpt?

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The reform efforts of Dorothea Dix during the mid-nineteenth century led to ---

• improved education for immigrant children

• the creation of worker safety regulations

• the expansion of suffrage for women

• improved facilities for the mentally ill and disabled

Based on the excerpt, why was Frederick Douglass significant to the abolitionist movement?

• He was elected as a state government official who challenged the system of slavery.

• He formed relationships with those who had different views on slavery from his own.

• He described his own personal experiences under the system of slavery.

• He emphasized that an educational system was the main way to end slavery.

Which action prompted the newspaper's claim that John Brown's raid "advanced the cause of disunion"?

• Some Northerners were willing to defend the South's right to continue slavery.

• Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs.

• Some abolitionists thought violence was necessary to end slavery.

• Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular sovereignty.

Which word correctly replaces the question mark in the title of this timeline?

• Suffrage

• Abolitionist

• Temperance

• Transcendentalist