SS Ch. 18 Quiz, The Reformers(Mr coleman)

Henry David Thoreau is known for a book he wrote about...

• building cabins.

• living close to nature.

• an ideal community.

• abolishing slavery

Who was a central figure in the transcendentalist movement?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Sojourner Truth

Transcendentalists believed that people should...

• question society's rules.

• conform to others' expectations.

• live alone to find God.

• attend religious meetings.

The Second Great Awakening inspired many people to...

• oppose the Mexican-American War.

• support prison reform.

• oppose model communities.

• oppose slavery.

In the jails and asylums near Boston, Dorothea Dix found mentally ill and insane persons...

• receiving no care or treatment for their conditions

• living in cages and bound in chains

• living in prisons, while guilty of no crime

• all of the above

Who was the central figure in the education reform movement?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Sojourner Truth

A goal of educational reformers was a free public education for...

• everyone

• white people only

• boys only

• white boys only

Which group benefited most from early efforts to establish public schools?

• girls

• boys

• American Indians

• African Americans

Frederick Douglass learned to read through lessons with...

• his mistress.

• white boys in the street

• abolitionists

• educated enslaved people.

According to Frederick Douglass, how did the influence of slavery change his mistress?

• She went against her husband's wishes and taught Douglass to read.

• She convinced her husband that enslaved people should learn to read.

• She changed her treatment of enslaved people from kindness to cruelty.

• She became an abolitionist.