WorksheetsSC USHC p.17 Mid 1800s Reforms
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Grimke Sisters were from SC, and best known for their involvement in which reform movement?
a)
Temperance
b)
Abolition
c)
Education
d)
Sufferage
2.
This means to limit the consumption of alcohol
a)
Prohibition
b)
Abolition
c)
Sufferage
d)
Temperance
3.
Where was the 1848 Women's Rights Convention?
a)
Washington DC
b)
New York City
c)
Seneca Falls
d)
Charleston
4.
Who became a leading supporter of home economics education for girls?
a)
Catherine Beecher
b)
Elizabeth Blackwell
c)
Amelia Bloomer
d)
I.M. Singer
5.
Who developed the steam powered boat for use in America?
a)
John Deere
b)
Cyrus McCormick
c)
Robert Fulton
d)
Samuel Morse
6.
Who developed a system of transmitting electric signals through wires using a special code?
a)
Robert Fulton
b)
Samuel Morse
c)
Charles Goodyear
d)
John Deere
7.
He changed the way we farmed with his steel plow.
a)
Cyrus McCormick
b)
John Deere
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
Charles Goodyear
8.
He changed the way farmers harvested their crops with his mechanical reaper?
a)
Charles Goodyear
b)
Samuel Morse
c)
John Deere
d)
Cyrus McCormick
9.
This is the term for someone who supports native born persons while discriminating against immigrants?
a)
suggeragist
b)
reformer
c)
nativist
d)
prejudice
10.
This was a small political party with the major platform of restricting immigration?
a)
Federalist
b)
Whig
c)
Know-Nothings
d)
Republican
11.
Name the essay written by Henry David Thoreau which talked about non-violent resistance?
a)
Leaves of Grass
b)
Self-Reliance
c)
Civil Disobedience
d)
Last of the Mohicans
12.
Name the chief advocate for free public schooling?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Noah Webster
d)
William Lloyd Garrison
13.
She was an advocate for the mentally ill and inmates?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Catherine Beecher
c)
Amelia Bloom
d)
Elizabeth Blackwell
14.
What was the name of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper?
a)
North Star
b)
The Liberator
c)
Self-Reliance
d)
Civil Disobedience
15.
Who was the publisher of the North Star abolitionist newspaper?
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Frederick Douglas
16.
This Presidential policy informed Europe that we would not tolerate interference in this hemisphere?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
salutary neglect
d)
Temperance
17.
This major agreement allowed the introduction of two more states and determined a boundary line for slavery?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Tariff of Abomination
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Worchester v. Georgia
18.
This was a large political program to build internal improvements, a national bank,
and a protective tariff?
and a protective tariff?
a)
Know-Nothing
b)
Great Compromise
c)
American System
d)
Tariff of Abomination
19.
What did the supporters of Andrew Jackson call the election of 1824?
a)
alternative fact
b)
Common Man
c)
Spoils System
d)
corrupt bargain
20.
What theme did Jackson use for the election of 1828?
a)
Spoils System
b)
Corrupt Bargain
c)
Common Man
d)
Great Compromiser
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