Westward Expansion and Reform

Religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening encouraged Americans to —

• avoid political issues

• improve moral behavior

• support monarchy

• limit westward expansion

The primary goal of the temperance movement was to —

• expand voting rights

• limit alcohol consumption

• end slavery

• increase westward migration

Many reformers supported temperance because they believed alcohol caused —

• poverty and violence

• immigration

• territorial conflict

• industrial growth

Which abolitionist published The Liberator in 1831?

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

Frederick Douglass strengthened the abolitionist movement by —

• organizing western settlers

• writing and publishing his autobiography

• leading a political party

• supporting Manifest Destiny

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 demanded —

• prohibition of alcohol

• voting rights for women

• prison reform

• westward expansion

Education reformers like Horace Mann believed public schools would strengthen —

• plantation systems

• democracy

• monarchy

• slavery

Dorothea Dix advocated for —(Select TWO)

• the creation of mental health institutions

• improved conditions in asylums

• expansion of slavery

• railroad construction

Refusing to obey a law because you believe it is unjust is called —

• federalism

• civil disobedience

• sectionalism

• manifest destiny

Transcendentalists emphasized —

• obedience to government

• self-reliance

• industrial expansion

• majority rule