Chapter 9 - Reform Movements

Which idea did the author of the Declaration of Sentiments adapt from the Declaration of Independence?

• All people are created equal.

• All people are subject to the government.

• People may ignore a government that does not protect their rights.

• People may abolish a government that does not protect their rights.

Add the name of each suffragist leader to the table next to her contributions to the suffrage movement.

• She was a formerly enslaved Black woman who became a nationally known speaker as she worked to improve the rights of Black people and women.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• She campaigned for voting rights and equal rights, voted even though it was illegal, and cofounded the National Woman Suffrage Association.

• Susan B. Anthony

• After being refused at an anti-slavery conference, she organized the Seneca Falls Convention, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, and cofounded the National Woman Suffrage Association.

• Sojourner Truth

Which claim does the text best support? "He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice..." - excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments

• Women should have the right to work.

• Women should have the right to vote.

• Women should have the right to own property.

• Women should be paid the same wages as men.

Which statement BEST describes the role the Seneca Falls Convention played in the women's suffrage movement?

• It was the convention that approved the 19th amendment.

• It was the convention that led to the abolitionist movement.

• It was the convention that expanded women's suffrage to other countries.

• It was the convention that first organized a movement toward women's suffrage in the United States.

What is Sojourner Truth arguing in this speech? (Choose 2) "I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?"

• Her experiences prove that women are better than men.

• Her experiences prove that women are strong and capable.

• Her experiences prove that women need to be taken care of.

• Her experiences prove that women deserve the same rights as men.

• Her experiences prove that women are treated fairly and viewed as equals to men.

Choose which person each statement describes.

• Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convent

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• fought against discrimination

• Mary Church Terrell

• published "Women in 19th Century"

• Margaret Fuller

What was the main goal of the abolitionist movement?

• to give enslaved people the right to vote

• to eliminate slavery in the United States

• to help Southerners catch people who escaped from slavery

• to stop slavery from spreading into new U.S. territories

Dorothea Lynde Dix worked in the ​ (a)   movement. She worked to change the treatment of ​ (b)   .

• prison reform
• mentally ill people
• abolition
• education reform
• children
• enslaved people

Which statement correctly explains Horace Mann's role in reform movements?

• Horace Mann supported public education for prisoners.

• Horace Mann supported public education for all children.

• Horace Mann supported public education for mentally ill people.

• Horace Mann supported public education for those who could afford it.

Which person's name belongs in the center of the graphic organizer?

• Harriet Tubman

• Mary Church Terrell

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison