Week 32 - Reform Movement

The document created by women's rights advocates at the Seneca Falls Convention was given which name?

• The Declaration of Sentiments

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of Feminism

• The Declaration of Confederation

Why would those at the Seneca Falls Convention object to the 15th Amendment?

• The amendment doesn't protect women.

• The Seneca Falls Convention supported slavery.

• The amendment only protects women of color.

• The Seneca Falls Convention opposed Reconstruction.

Why did the Seneca Falls Convention model their own declaration off the Declaration of Independence?

• To draw similarities between themselves and the Founding Fathers

• To draw contrasts between themselves and the Founding Fathers

• The women's rights movement wanted to separate from the United States

• Because Thomas Jefferson wrote both declarations.

This reformer sought changes for those suffering from mental health issues in the United States.

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

This reformer sought to provide all children in America with a free, high-quality public education.

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

• Susan B. Anthony

• Lucretia Mott

Why did reformers push education reform?

• So children could read religious texts.

• So children could become productive factory workers.

• So children could have improved lives and futures.

• So children could vote in 1800s elections.

The Second Great Awakening contributed to which of the following in the early to mid 1800s?

• Support for slavery

• Social and reform movements in the United States

• Support for socialism

• The decline in religious belief among American citizens

Supporters of the women's rights movement felt that women were denied which of the following rights:

• the right to vote

• educational opportunities

• economic opportunities

• all of the above

What were debtor's prisons?

• Prisons for the mentally ill.

• Prisons for both men and women.

• Prisons housing both adults and children.

• Prisons for people who could not pay their bills.

Who was a leading African-American voice in the women's rights movement?

• Nat Turner

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln