Antebellum Reform Movements Edpuzzle

The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. These religious awakenings were all denominations of what branch of Christianity?

• Catholic

• Protestant

The reform movements grew out of the belief that perfection could be achieved both personally and community-wide by removing temptations to have a truly free society thus leading to what particular reform platform?

• temperance

• prohibition

• abolition

Public school houses that were led by the ideas of Horace Mann were called what?

• public schools

• charter schools

• common schools

What was the biggest reform movement of the 19th Century?

• abolition

• prohibition

• women's rights

What was the idea of the Colonizationists?

• to send all former slaves to Africa

• to create a colony in the west

• to abolish slavery in Africa

William Lloyd Garrison was so anti-slavery; he burned what in protest that it "was a pact with the devil?"

• the Bible

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Constitution

Radical abolitionists were considered "radical" because they believed in _____.

• abolishing slavery

• equality of all races

What did the radical abolitionists rename the statehouse bell in Philadelphia?

• the Liberty Bell

• the Bell of America

• Freedom Rings

What law/rule prohibited members of Congress from reading or calling for the emancipation of slaves?

• Anti-Slavery Law

• the gag rule

Describe the impact of the reform movement era on women in the United States during the 19th century.

• Women wanted to participate in the abolition of slavery and see more justice in society, so they began to want equal rights for themselves as well.

• Women continued to participate in their traditional roles of homemakers and childbearers during the 19th century, as men fought for or against slavery.