Reform Era Day 5 & Review

Which of the following was a main point in the Declaration of Sentiments?

• Men should be the only source of income for their families.

• Women should be allowed to become priests.

• Men and women should have equal rights in society.

• Women should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces.

__Abolitionists__ worked to end the practice of slavery.

• Reformists

• Abolitionists

• Activists

• Conservatives

__Civil disobedience__ means peacefully refusing to follow a law in order to make a point.

• Civil disobedience

• Civil obedience

• Legal compliance

• Social protest

British impressment of U.S. sailors

• Causes of War of 1812

• Effects of the American Revolution

• Treaty of Paris

• The Louisiana Purchase

Which of the following statements would reflect the ideas of transcendentalism?

• A man must obey the laws of his country first, otherwise chaos would ensue.

• If slavery were abolished, America’s economy would grow because more free labor would be available.

• The transcontinental railroad will connect the east and west coasts so that goods can travel more efficiently.

• Those who ignore what is wrong, or do not care about what is right, will allow the practice of slavery to continue in this country.

Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil

• Southern colonies’ economy

• Northern colonies’ economy

• Western colonies’ economy

• Eastern colonies’ economy

Fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors

• New England colonies’ economy

• Southern colonies’ economy

• Middle colonies’ economy

• Western territories’ economy

Founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, ideal societies

• Transcendentalism

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Existentialism

Which factor encouraged more immigrants to settle in northern states than southern states during the mid-nineteenth century?

• Northern states had lower population densities.

• Citizenship requirements in southern states were not as strict.

• Southern states had smaller industrial sectors.

• Governments in northern states were less corrupt.

________________________________________________________ founded the Transcendentalist Movement.

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman

• Nathaniel Hawthorne