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WorksheetsReform Era Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What event was held to promote women’s rights in 1848?
a)
The March on Washington
b)
The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
c)
The Rally in Hyde Park
d)
The Seneca Falls Convention in New York
2.
At the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the ______________ was written.
a)
Bill of Rights
b)
Declaration of Sentiments
c)
Treaty of Paris
d)
Constitution
3.
How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?
a)
It showed Northerners the ugliness and brutality of slavery.
b)
It provided no credibility to the movement
c)
It taught many slaves how to read
d)
It actually hurt the movement by upsetting Southerners
4.
The organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society -
a)
Suffrage
b)
Prison Reform
c)
Women's Rights movement
d)
Wilmot Proviso
5.
She was the leading figure of the prison reform movement:
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Susan B. Anthony
6.
- An escaped slave.
- Delivered “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
- Leader in the Women's Rights and Abolitionist movement.
- Delivered “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
- Leader in the Women's Rights and Abolitionist movement.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Susan B. Anthony
7.
- Leading figure of the Women's Rights movement.
- Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
- Fought for women's suffrage.
- Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
- Fought for women's suffrage.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Susan B. Anthony
8.
This movement believed your should:
1. Question societies rules
2. Be original and true to yourself
3. Get out and experience nature
1. Question societies rules
2. Be original and true to yourself
3. Get out and experience nature
a)
Abolition
b)
Second Great Awakening
c)
Transcendentalism
d)
Education
9.
Which of the following was a problem that helped instigate the need for social reforms?
a)
alcoholism was destroying families
b)
prisons were poorly run
c)
children lacked proper education
d)
all of the above
10.
What is temperance?
a)
not drinking alcohol
b)
the study of temperatures
c)
a religious belief that says your temper controls your fate
d)
the right to vote
11.
While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…
a)
Publishing a novel about slavery
b)
The reform of public education
c)
Providing healthcare to the impoverished
d)
Rewriting the constitution
12.
William Lloyd Garrison printed the weekly newspaper the Liberator. In it he printed articles condemning (disapproving, criticizing):
a)
The institution of slavery
b)
The unfair treatment of women
c)
The abuses faced by prison inmates
d)
child labor
13.
He was the leader of the education reform movement-
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Horace Mann
d)
Charles Finney
14.
This cartoon represents the point of view of which reform movement?
a)
Child labor
b)
Temperance
c)
Abolition
d)
Women's Rights
15.
What literary work did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought attention to the brutal conditions of slavery?
a)
North and South
b)
Gone With the Wind
c)
Up From Slavery
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
16.
Having the right to vote is called:
a)
disenfranschiment
b)
suffrage
c)
rights
d)
frankage
17.
Minister during the Second Great Awakening that promoted social reforms like abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Hidden Kanye
c)
Charles Finney
d)
James Monroe
18.
This movement stated you could redeem or earn your way to heaven by doing good work on earth.
a)
Transcendentalism
b)
Second Great Awakening
c)
Temperance
d)
Abolition
19.
- An escaped slave.
- Leader of the abolitionist movement
- Created his own abolitionist newspaper, "the North star."
- Leader of the abolitionist movement
- Created his own abolitionist newspaper, "the North star."
a)
Charles Finney
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Lucretia Mott
20.
The Underground Railroad was a
a)
A railroad buried deep underground that was built by Lincoln
b)
A railroad system that would bring free slaves from the South to the North.
c)
a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in order to escape to free states.
21.
Which two women led the Women’s Rights Movement?
a)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
b)
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth and Dorothea Dix
d)
Betsy Ross and Sacajawea
22.
Define "Reform"-
a)
to make change to something in order to improve it
b)
first co-ed college
c)
the time period directly after a major war
d)
the right to vote
23.
What invention caused slavery to greatly expand across the south?
a)
The telegraph
b)
The lawn mower
c)
The cotton gin
d)
The light bulb
24.
The Hudson River School artists created paintings that reflected national pride and an appreciation for
a)
Buildings
b)
Politicians
c)
War
d)
Nature
25.
Which state was the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 held in?
a)
New York
b)
Virginia
c)
Oklahoma
d)
South Carolina
26.
-Conductor on the Underground Railroad
-Escaped Slave
-Leading abolitionists
-Escaped Slave
-Leading abolitionists
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Carrie A. Nation
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