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WorksheetsHMS WE/IR and Reform
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 48mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What religious movement led to the other reform movements?
a)
The Reformation
b)
The Second Great Awakening
c)
The Renaissance
d)
The First Great Awakening
2.
Which of the following was a problem that instigated the reforms?
a)
alcoholism was destroying families
b)
prisons were poorly run
c)
children lacked proper education
d)
all of the above
3.
What is temperance?
a)
abstinence from alcoholic drink
b)
the study of temperatures
c)
a religious belief that says your temper controls your fate
d)
the right to vote
4.
What was the name of the weekly abolitionist newspaper?
a)
The New York Sun
b)
Chattanooga Daily Rebel
c)
National Enquirer
d)
The Liberator
5.
What event was the event 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
6.
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
7.
Organized attempts to improve conditions of life
a)
social reform
b)
revival
c)
declaration of sentiments
d)
fugitive slave act
8.
A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.
a)
Socialism
b)
Libertarianism
c)
Communism
d)
Transcendentalism
9.
The Underground Railroad was:
a)
A network of secret routes and safe houses starting in the South and ending in the North.
b)
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States.
c)
A network of well-known routes and safe houses used by many.
d)
A network of slaves going back and helping other slaves on a regular basis, saving over 2 million.
10.
What is an abolitionist?
a)
Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
b)
Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
c)
Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
d)
Someone who wants to never wear jeans.
11.
The people who formed Utopian communities believed that
a)
Society corrupted human nature
b)
Humans were basically bad
c)
Government must be reformed
d)
People needed more faith
12.
What amendment prohibits making, drinking, or selling alochol?
a)
18
b)
21
c)
19
d)
13
13.
The temperance movement, Seneca Falls Convention, The Second Great Awakening are events that occured during-
a)
The era of Good Feelings
b)
The Industrial Revolution
c)
The Reform Era
d)
The Revolutionary Era
14.
Injustice toward women was described in the
a)
Declaration of the Rights of Women
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
Declaration of Sentiments
d)
Declaration of Seneca Falls
15.
Sojourner Truth - "Women should NOT be viewed as _____ than men"
a)
stronger
b)
smarter
c)
lazier
d)
weaker
16.
How did the Second Great Awakening relate to other reform movements?
a)
It taught more people to read and right
b)
It gave money to reformers
c)
It freed all the slaves
d)
It motivated people to want change
17.
How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?
a)
It showed Northerners that slavery was a problem
b)
It created new laws
c)
It taught many slaves how to read
d)
It only hurt the reform movement
18.
What did Dorthea Dix want to improve?
a)
Shelters for pets
b)
Equality for African Americans
c)
Conditions in prisons
d)
Food distribution
19.
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
20.
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
21.
Which of the following was associated with women's sufferage?
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Susan B. Anthony
22.
Which of the following believed that education would lead to a productive society?
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Horace Mann
d)
WIlliam Lloyd Garrison
23.
William Lloyd Garrison was the founder of which antislavery newspaper?
a)
The Examiner
b)
The Liberator
c)
The New York Times
d)
The Independence Gazette
24.
Sojourner Truth preached to people about _____.
a)
evils of slavery
b)
how to escape to freedom
c)
how to talk to slave owners
d)
how to bake bread
25.
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who:
a)
Complained about his new life in the North.
b)
Went into hiding in New York.
c)
Created a platform about returning to Africa.
d)
Spoke up about his experiences as a slave while living in the North.
26.
He was a transcendentalist and was from New England.
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Edgar Allen Poe
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
27.
Which Transcendentalist used civil disobedience to protest taxes?
a)
Baron de Montesquieu
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
John Locke
d)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
28.
Which of the following was associated with women's sufferage?
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Susan B. Anthony
29.
Who was the leader of the education reform movement?
a)
Horace Mann
b)
Horse Mann
c)
Neighhhhh
d)
Hoarse Mann
30.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton shocked others in the women's movement by proposing that they focus on
a)
Equal pay for equal work
b)
Getting women elected to Congress
c)
Gaining the right to vote
d)
Gaining workplace opportunities
31.
Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Frederick Douglas
32.
How did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fight for women's suffrage?
a)
giving speeches about abolishing slavery
b)
giving speeches about fair pay for women
c)
writing books about their history
d)
giving speeches about the right to vote
33.
Writers Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were
a)
transcendentalists
b)
revivalists
c)
utopians
d)
enslaved people
34.
What influences did the Industrial Revolution have on women?
a)
Women stayed at home to take care of the home and children
b)
Women made more money than men during the Industrial Revolution.
c)
Women started to move to cities and had jobs in textile factories.
d)
Women influenced the government to change how factories paid workers.
35.
What did advancement in transportation such as canals, steamboats, and railroads have on manufactured goods?
a)
Goods became more expensive to produce and ship.
b)
Goods became cheaper and easier to ship.
c)
Nothing changed in goods produced.
d)
The South started making less goods.
36.
What is the movement of people from rural to urban areas called?
a)
ruralization
b)
colonization
c)
inflation
d)
urbanization
37.
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?
a)
Made the crime rate decrease
b)
Led to an increase in farm workers
c)
Make the cities cleaner and safer
d)
Led to an increase in population in the cities
38.
What is a free enterprise system?
a)
Making goods cheaper to increase sales and profits
b)
Making goods more expensive to decrease sales and profits
c)
Making better goods by having the government oversee companies
d)
Having labor unions helping out workers
39.
What allowed goods to be produced cheaper and faster for the increasing population?
a)
Cottage industry
b)
Animal power
c)
Hand made items
d)
Mass production
40.
The use of these helped make mass production possible
a)
Strike
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
cottage industry
d)
factory system
41.
Name the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Henry Bessmer
c)
Alexander Bell
d)
Thomas Edison
42.
What effect did the cotton gin have on cotton?
a)
Cotton was more expensive and decline of slavery in the South.
b)
Cotton could not be produce quickly.
c)
Cotton was made cheaper and rise in slave population.
d)
The value of cotton decreased.
43.
The Irish coming to America as a result of the Potato Famine are an example of:
a)
specilaization
b)
immigration
c)
emigration
d)
poor judgement
44.
During the Industrial Revolution, transportation was improved by having more:
a)
airplanes
b)
canals & paved roads
c)
taxi service
d)
time because there was no Netflix
45.
This is why most immigrant settled in cities
a)
Jobs
b)
Sobs
c)
Cookies
d)
Loneliness
46.
Why did the North have an industrial economy while the South had an agricultural society?
a)
Tariffs played a major role for the north
b)
All the slaves were in the South
c)
The geography of the region supported the different economies.
d)
People could not make it in factories so they moved South.
47.
What was an impact on of Samuel Morse's invention?
a)
People can use slaves more efficiently
b)
People can now exchange information from long distance
c)
It made shipping goods easier
d)
It made manufacturing goods cheaper.
48.
What did the development of textile factories have on urbanization?
a)
Workers such as women and immigrants moved closer to factories
b)
Workers started to move to agricultural areas
c)
Many workers moved overseas to find work.
d)
Labor unions helped people to find jobs.
49.
What are the economic and geographic reasons in why settlers wanted to move west?
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Cheap fertile land and logging, farming, and freedom opportunities
c)
The growing population of cities areas in the east
d)
Going west for fun!
50.
In what year did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory?
a)
1903
b)
1812
c)
1848
d)
1803
51.
What President was the biggest supporter of Manifest Destiny?
a)
James K. Polk
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
James Monroe
d)
George Washington
52.
What year did the most miners rush to California?
a)
1848
b)
1849
c)
1852
d)
1853
53.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Louisiana Purchase
54.
Results of the U.S. Mexican War
-Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United States.
-The Rio Grande is made the border between Mexico and the United States.
-Mexico cedes territory that is now part of 7 present day states.
Which treaty established these terms of peace to end the war?
-Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United States.
-The Rio Grande is made the border between Mexico and the United States.
-Mexico cedes territory that is now part of 7 present day states.
Which treaty established these terms of peace to end the war?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Adams-Onis Treaty
c)
Treaty of Jefferson
d)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
55.
What happened in California in 1849 and what do we call the people who went there in that year?
a)
Silver/Shiners
b)
Crops/Slaves
c)
Gold/Forty-niners
d)
Gold/Seventy-niners
56.
What piece of land was purchased in order to build something in the South? What did they want to build?
a)
Mexican Cession/Trails
b)
Louisiana Territory/Canals
c)
transcontinental/Oregon Country
d)
Gadsden Purchase/Railroad
57.
Who were the Mormons?
a)
1848 when gold was found in California
b)
name given to members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
c)
Mexican General
d)
created by Congress in 1848 as an area that included present day Oregon
58.
Oregon Trail
a)
a route used during the US migration westward
b)
a person who went to California for the gold rush
c)
a giving up ( as in territory or rights ) to another
d)
a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
59.
Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to
a)
obey the Book of Mormon
b)
prosper in the fur trade
c)
seek out religious freedom
d)
gold
60.
President Jackson refused to annex Texas at first because doing so would have
a)
upset the balance between free and slave states.
b)
admitted to the British that western expansion had ended.
c)
gone against the wishes of Congress.
61.
The US got Florida from
a)
France
b)
Great Britain
c)
Mexico
d)
Spain
62.
How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?
a)
It led to war.
b)
It doubled the nation's size.
c)
It limited trade opportunities.
d)
It led to the discovery of a water route across the country.
63.
Which territory was annexed to the United States following ten years of being "The Lonestar republic"?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
64.
Utah is mostly settled by what people?
a)
Mormons
b)
Christians
c)
Native Americans
d)
Mountain men and fur trappers
65.
Which geographic feature was the boundary line between the United States in 1783 and the Louisiana Territory in 1803?
a)
Appalachian Mountains
b)
Great Lakes
c)
Mississippi River
d)
Rocky Mountains
66.
What type of civil disobedience did Henry David Thoreau used against the U.S government?
a)
He paid his taxes and supported Slavery like the government did.
b)
He did not pay his taxes because he believed that a government supporting slavery was wrong.
c)
He did not pay his taxes because he thought the government was corrupt.
d)
He paid his taxes because he thought the government needed his money.
67.
Americans believe it is their role to expand. Also the belief that America's new society is the best example for the world.
a)
American Independence
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
States Rights'
d)
Sea to shining sea
68.
What is the name of the Treaty that ends the Mexican-American war?
a)
Treaty of 1783
b)
Treaty of Paris
c)
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
d)
Adams-Onis Treaty
69.
Results of the U.S. Mexican War
-Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United States.
-The Rio Grande is made the border between Mexico and the United States.
-Mexico cedes territory that is now part of 7 present day states.
Which treaty established these terms of peace to end the war?
-Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United States.
-The Rio Grande is made the border between Mexico and the United States.
-Mexico cedes territory that is now part of 7 present day states.
Which treaty established these terms of peace to end the war?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Adams-Onis Treaty
c)
Treaty of Jefferson
d)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
70.
What movement was started because of alcohol abuse in America?
a)
Women's Rights
b)
Abolition
c)
Temperance
d)
Second Great Awakening
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