American Reformers Quiz

Who was famous for his denunciation of slavery and attempted to appeal to legislators to abolish slavery?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry David Thoreau

Who was a pioneer in the reform of the American public school system, instituting a minimum school year of 6 months and doubling education money?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

• Horace Mann

Who was one of America’s first great African American speakers, published a popular autobiography in 1845, and later published the antislavery paper, the North Star?

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

Who dedicated her life to women’s suffrage, traveled to campaign for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery, and persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women in 1900?

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Lucretia Mott

Who played a major role in founding mental hospitals in America and Europe, and arranged for the addition of libraries to prisons, mental hospitals, and other institutions?

• Dorothea Dix

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

Who wrote Walden and other books about nature, and protested against paying a poll tax in Civil Disobedience?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Emily Dickinson

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman

Who was a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, made 19 trips to the south and rescued over 300 slaves, and became known as 'Moses'?

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Harriet Tubman

• Lucretia Mott

Who were known as 'trailblazers' for women’s rights and abolition, and wrote extensively and campaigned to end slavery and establish rights for women?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott

• Lucretia Mott and Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony

Who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and spoke for women’s suffrage, and fought for the abolishment of slavery?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Who was known as the 'Father of Modern American Poetry' and wrote Leaves of Grass?

• Emily Dickinson

• Walt Whitman

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson