Social and Religious Reformers

Determine which description is connected t the reformer.

• Worked to change the role of women in society and fought for women's right to vote.

• Henry David Thoreau

• Leader of the abolitionist movement, famous speaker, and author of the newspaper The North Star

• Susan B. Anthony

• Known as "Moses", helped numerous runaway slaves make it North to freedom

• Frederick Douglass

• Refused to pay taxes as a form of civil disobedience since the government refused to outlaw slavery

• Harriet Tubman

Determine which description is connected to the reformer.

• Believed that education was the "great equalizer"

• Dorothea Dix

• Advocated for prison reform and better treatment of the mentally ill

• Horace Mann

• Created an anti-slavey newspaper called The Liberator

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Organized the first women's rights convention

• William Lloyd Garrison

Which statement best explains how the Second Great Awakening influenced change in American society?

• It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

• It inspired the growth of social reform movements.

• It led to the industrialization of northern cities

• It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

Which of the following responses best describes the Second Great Awakening?

• A religious revival that advocated for free will and self-improvement

• An intellectual movement that emphasized education reform and equality

• A philosophical movement that emphasized logic and reason

• A religious revival that advocated Calvinistic ideals and duty to God

Based off this passage, what reform movement is Emerson supporting?

• Aboltionist

• Temperance

• Women's Suffrage

• Prison Reform

Which of these was an impact of the religious movement shown above known as the Second Great Awakening?

• Reformers challenged slavery, drunkenness and other social problems.

• More Americans felt able to resist the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament.

• Several states established their own state religions.

• Rural areas in the South introduced better forms of lighting.

In what way did Lyman Beecher's efforts during the Second Great Awakening contribute to social change?

• • By encouraging economic growth

• • By promoting religious revivals that led to social reforms

• • By discouraging any form of social activism

• • By focusing solely on theological debates

Which statement accurately describes the Second Great Awakening?

• It was a religious revival that emphasized quiet and unemotional worship of God.

• It was a religious revival that emphasized equality and improvement.

• It was a religious revival that emphasized the Catholic faith.

• It was a religious revival that emphasized the power of God to decide a person’s fate.

Which of the following represents the best definition of The Second Great Awakening?

• Salvation can only be achieved through a personal belief in Jesus Christ in some cases.

• People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds.

• Religion is the only way to solve the world's problems.

• The idea of including all people in the religious experience, not just rich people.

True or False: As a result of the Second Great Awakening (a series of revivals in the 1790s-early 1800s), the dominant form of Christianity in America became evangelical Protestantism

• True

• False