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WorksheetsAntebellum Reform
Total questions: 121
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Class
Date
1.
Antebellum means -
a)
Before War
b)
After War
c)
During War
d)
Post-War
2.
Who were the people that moved to Kansas and Nebraska that were against slavery?
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Border Ruffians
d)
Freed Blacks
3.
All of the following important women attended the Seneca Falls Convention EXCEPT-
a)
Elizabeth Katy Stanton
b)
Lucretia Mott
c)
Susan B Anthony
d)
Gloria Steinem
4.
A person who fought against slavery before the civil war was known by this term -
a)
Atheist
b)
Artist
c)
Abolitionist
d)
Suffragist
5.
The terms suffrage and franchise refer to this -
a)
Slavery
b)
Voting
c)
Trade
d)
Income
6.
This was the network that helped runaway slaves reach the north?
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
Ocean Ships
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Freedom Train
7.
This book was the 2nd most read book during the 19th century. It opened the world up to slavery in the South?
a)
House of Diers Drier?
b)
Freedom Train
c)
Uncle Toms Cabin
d)
Diary of a Slave Girl
8.
The Fugitive Slave was a part of what Compromise?
a)
The Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Tariff Compromise
9.
This was created in part because of the devotion to different regions of the United States?
a)
Sectionalism
b)
Division
c)
Slavery
d)
Agriculture
10.
This man was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write. He became an influential player in the abolitionist movement?
a)
Stephen Douglass
b)
Solomon Northup
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Harry Tubman
11.
She was known as the Moses of her People?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Cloteet
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
12.
This author wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, which was a book based on her life growing up on a Southern Plantation?
a)
Sara Grimkee
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Cloteet
13.
What was the name of the compromise that allowed slaves to be counted in the population for representation in the Congress?
a)
5/8 Compromise
b)
5/3 Compromise
c)
3/5 Compromise
d)
3/8 Compromise
14.
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
15.
What was a difference between the First and Second Great Awakenings?
a)
One was led by a woman and the other by a man
b)
The First said the common man did not have power in his own salvation and the second said they could
c)
The first great awakening saved animals and the second saved children
d)
They were exactly the same just at different times
16.
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
17.
Which three people were leaders of the temperance movement?
a)
John Bartholomew Gough, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
c)
Cady Heron, Aaron Samuels, and Regina George
d)
Jesus, Buddha, and Mr. Weeks
18.
What did Dorothea Dix want to improve?
a)
Shelters for pets
b)
Equality for African Americans
c)
Conditions in prisons
d)
Food distribution
19.
What was the first college to allow women and African Americans?
a)
Harvard University
b)
Oberlin College
c)
Antioch College
d)
University of Pennsylvania
20.
What was the name of the weekly abolitionist newspaper?
a)
The New York Sun
b)
Chattanooga Daily Rebel
c)
National Enquirer
d)
The Liberator
21.
Who was a minister during the Second Great Awakening that promoted many social reforms like abolition of slavery and equal rights to education for men, women, and African Americans?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Hidden Kanye
c)
Charles Finney
d)
James Monroe
22.
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
23.
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 Concention
24.
What invention instigated slavery greatly expanding across the south?
a)
The telegraph
b)
The lawn mower
c)
The cotton gin
d)
The light bulb
25.
Which movement was the most successful of all the antebellum reforms?
a)
asylum
b)
Abolition
c)
Temperance
d)
Schools
26.
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
27.
Which of the following is a right of a state not to follow a federal law?
a)
Segregation
b)
Abolitionism
c)
Secession
d)
Nullification
28.
The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states:
a)
A. Georgia Platform
b)
B. Missouri Compromise
c)
C. Compromise of 1850
d)
D. Kansas-Nebraska Act
29.
A southern politician who believed in the doctrine of nullification would have been most supportive of
a)
A. Abolition.
b)
B. Crop diversification
c)
C. A strong federal government.
d)
D. States’ rights.
30.
The economy of the South depended largely on
a)
A. New technology.
b)
B. Manufacturing.
c)
C. Politics.
d)
D. Slave labor.
31.
An abolitionist supported which of the following causes?
a)
outlawing alcohol
b)
ending slavery
c)
limiting slavery to southern states
d)
ending women's suffrage
32.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...
a)
avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.
b)
ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.
c)
ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.
d)
ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.
33.
This law allowed Missouri to become a slave state at the same time Maine became a free state. It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Kansas Nebraska Act
d)
Fugitive Slave Laws
34.
This law allowed California to become a free state and gave southerners a law that return escaped slaves back to the south.
a)
Kansas Nebraska Act
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Dred Scott Decision
d)
Compromise of 1850
35.
The breaking of the United States into regions of common economies, populations and values was called...
a)
compromise
b)
secession
c)
states' rights
d)
sectionalism
36.
This was the network that helped runaway slaves reach the north?
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
Ocean Ships
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Freedom Train
37.
What is the term for a state declaring its independence from a country or leaving to join another?
a)
Sectionialism
b)
Secession
c)
Nullify
d)
Abolish
38.
Why did the fear of slave revolts in the South increase in the early 1800s?
a)
The government required slave owners to educate their slaves.
b)
The population of the South began to support emancipation
c)
The slave population outnumbered the white population in the South
d)
The economy of the South began to crash after the invention of the cotton gin.
39.
What was the goal of the Abolitionist Movement?
a)
to prohibit the sale of alcohol
b)
to gain universal suffrage
c)
to industrialize the economy
d)
to end the practice of slavery
40.
What impact did Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin have on the slave population in South Carolina?
a)
The slave population decreased as white workers opened factories that replaced slave jobs
b)
The slave population increased as more cotton was grown and processed
c)
The slave population decreased as slave-owners needed fewer slaves to work the machines
d)
The slave population remained steady as slave-owners did not need to import more slaves.
41.
Who benefited from slave labor?
a)
slaves who learned new skills
b)
northern textile mill owners and southern plantation owners
c)
southern subsistence farmers
d)
Native American fur traders
42.
Why were South Carolinians opposed to the passage of protective tariffs in the early 1800s?
a)
Tariffs hurt the South by raising the prices of manufactured goods.
b)
Tariffs prevented Southerners from exporting cotton
c)
South Carolinians were opposed to all actions by President Andrew Jackson
d)
South Carolinians felt the tariff would harm the growing textile industry.
43.
This was discovered in California Territory in 1849?
a)
Silver
b)
Gold
c)
Mercury
d)
Platinum
44.
These two sisters were abolitionist even though they lived in South Carolina?
a)
The Sledge Sisters
b)
The Grimke Sisters
c)
The Smith Sisters
d)
The Stowe Sisters
45.
The north became industrial during the Antebellum period. Who did they use to work in these large factories?
a)
Slaves
b)
Immigrants
c)
Southern Farmers
d)
Abolitionosst
46.
This picture best represents what insitution?
a)
Agriculture
b)
Share Cropping
c)
Slavery
d)
Migrant Labor
47.
This man was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write. He became an influential player in the abolitionist movement?
a)
Stephen Douglass
b)
Solomon Northup
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Harry Tubman
48.
She was known as the Moses of her People?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Cloteet
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
49.
This author wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, which was a book based on her life growing up on a Southern Plantation?
a)
Sara Grimkee
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Cloteet
50.
This word deals with changes that are made in society for the better good of all people?
a)
Reforms
b)
Secession
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Abolitoinistm
51.
This territory was gained from what country?
a)
England
b)
France
c)
Spain
d)
Mexico
52.
What was the name of the compromise that allowed slaves to be counted in the population for representation in the Congress?
a)
5/8 Compromise
b)
5/3 Compromise
c)
3/5 Compromise
d)
3/8 Compromise
53.
Factories like this were commonly found in what region of the United States during the early half of the 19th century?
a)
West
b)
North
c)
South
d)
East
54.
What does this picture represent
a)
Farming Life
b)
Industrial Life
c)
Plantation Life
d)
Slave Life
55.
This system was proposed by Henry Clay and it had three main parts which included a National Bank, Tariff, and Infrastructure improvement?
a)
American System
b)
Great Compromise
c)
New Jersey Plan
d)
Caste System
56.
This connected the Great Lakes to New York City?
a)
Panama Canal
b)
Erie Canal
c)
Transcontinetal Railroad
d)
National Road
57.
This idea is that a person’s loyalty was to their region or state.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
Secession
c)
Abolition
d)
Nullification
58.
What was the final ruling in the Dred Scott case?
a)
That Dred Scott should be freed
b)
That all slaves should be freed
c)
That slavery should expand into the territories
d)
That slaves were not citizens and had no human rights
59.
What impact did cotton have on western settlement?
a)
Cotton was a southern cash crop that had no impact on the West.
b)
Most western settlers opposed slavery and moved west to get away from cotton plantations.
c)
Cotton's profitability discouraged many from moving west for economic reasons.
d)
Cotton's profitability encouraged many people to move west to acquire land.
60.
A southern plantation owner would have been most excited about...
a)
interchangeable parts.
b)
the cotton gin.
c)
abolition.
d)
the Seneca Falls Conference.
61.
Why was the issue of slavery in the US territories so politically heated in the 1800s?
a)
Most politicians new that they could not win enough votes to stay in office if they did not openly oppose slavery.
b)
Settlers in new territories opposed slavery and did not like the fact that Congress was requiring them to allow the practice.
c)
Southern pro-slavery leaders and northern anti-slavery leaders both wanted to maintain their power in Washington.
d)
Nearly every new state allowed slavery while almost all politicians in Washington DC opposed slavery.
62.
Who started the Mormon faith?
a)
Angel Moroni
b)
Joseph Smith
c)
Brigham Young
63.
What is the word given to their belief that you can have more than one wife?
a)
monogamy
b)
polygamy
64.
What happened the Joseph Smith when he was in Navoo?
a)
He was killed
b)
He was tarred and feathered
c)
He hid the gold tablets
65.
Who led the Mormons from Navoo to Salt Lake City?
a)
Joseph Smith
b)
Brigham Young
c)
God
66.
When did the Mormons arrive in Salt Lake City?
a)
1837
b)
1847
c)
1857
d)
1867
67.
Time Period of romanticism and transcendentalism?
a)
1600-1660
b)
1700-1760
c)
1800-1860
d)
1900-1960
68.
Thoreau believes that technological advances lead to a better way of life?
a)
True
b)
False
69.
Who wrote "Civil Disobedience"?
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
Walt Whitman
d)
Margret Fuller
70.
The aim of Transcendentalism is ___________________________________.
a)
Self-Reliance
b)
Self-Knowledge
c)
Self-Taught
d)
Self-Esteem
71.
Wrote "Nature" and created the idea of Transcendentalism.
a)
Margret Fuller
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
Bronson Alcott
d)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
72.
Which individual spent one night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes?
a)
Whitman
b)
Steve Harvey
c)
Emerson
d)
Thoreau
73.
What was Thoreau's main idea in Walden?
a)
simplicity is key
b)
revolutions matter
c)
imitation is suicide
d)
materialism is best when used in moderation
74.
What is Thoreau’s main idea in "Civil Disobedience"?
a)
fight the government at all costs
b)
allow anarchy to reign
c)
people should have a say
d)
government should not listen to the people
75.
What does this picture represent?
a)
Self-Reliance
b)
Spirituality
c)
Civil Disobedience
d)
Simplicity
76.
All of the following were social reforms during this time period EXCEPT?
a)
abolition of slavery
b)
education
c)
children labor laws
d)
women's rights
77.
What movement was started because of alcohol abuse in America?
a)
Women's Rights
b)
Abolition
c)
Temperance
d)
Second Great Awakening
78.
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
79.
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
80.
What was the name of the weekly abolitionist newspaper?
a)
The New York Sun
b)
Chattanooga Daily Rebel
c)
National Enquirer
d)
The Liberator
81.
Who is Dorethea Dix?
a)
a criminal
b)
a reformer
c)
a secret spy
d)
a teacher, who was moved by seeing the horrible conditions of jails and wanted to seek reform
82.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
a)
Party
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Speech
d)
Religious Movement
83.
Who was the leader of the education reform movement?
a)
Horace Mann
b)
Horse Mann
c)
Neighhhhh
d)
Hoarse Mann
84.
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
85.
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.
86.
What literary work did H.B. Stowe write that brought attention to the brutal conditions of slavery?
a)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
b)
Gone With the Wind
c)
Up From Slavery
d)
North and South
87.
In the 1800's, what law required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Dredd Scott Decision
d)
Fugitive Slave Law
88.
Who escaped from slavery only to return 19 times to help other slaves escape?
a)
Sojourner Truth
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Frederick Douglas
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
89.
Abolitionists demanded.....
a)
immediate freeing of slaves
b)
freedom to practice their religion
c)
equal rights for women
90.
Abolitionists believed that....
a)
slavery should end gradually so as not to hurt southern economy
b)
slavery should be legal only in the south
c)
slavery was morally wrong, cruel, inhumane and undemocratic and slaves should be freed immediately
91.
Which of the following was NOT an abolitionist leader?
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Patrick Henry
d)
Harriet Tubman
92.
As a literary movement, Realism aimed to portray __________________.
a)
U.S. history
b)
no emotions
c)
ordinary life
d)
nature and imagination
93.
Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of American frontier dwellers?
a)
rich
b)
mobile
c)
practical
d)
optimistic
94.
What is a way of speaking that is localized geographically?
a)
conversation
b)
dialect
c)
linguistics
d)
diction
95.
Who was best known for the common school movement?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Horace Mann
c)
The Quakers
d)
John Dewey
96.
What did Horace Mann try to convince to the people about education?
a)
the need for a classic education
b)
the people should have to pay to have their education
c)
a system of universal free schools for all
d)
education should be strictly private not public
97.
Who invented the steamboat 1804?
a)
Cyrus Mc Cormick
b)
Elias Howe
c)
Samuel F.B. Morse
d)
Robert Fulton
98.
What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communications forever?
a)
telephone
b)
telegraph
c)
Internet
d)
electrical services
99.
Who invented the cotton gin 1793?
a)
Robert Fulton
b)
John Deer
c)
Cyrus Mc Cormick
d)
Eli Whitney
100.
The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce...
a)
cotton
b)
peanuts
c)
steel
d)
electricity
101.
Who invented the telegraph in 1840?
a)
James Hargreaves
b)
John Deer
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
John Montressor
102.
Impact on life in the U.S.It turned rivers into busy routes for traders and travelers.
a)
Railroads
b)
Steamboat
c)
Telegraph
d)
Mechanical Reaper
103.
Impact on life in the U.S.It sped up the process of cleaning the cotton.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Sewing Machine
c)
Thread-Spinning Mill
d)
Interchangeable Parts
104.
Impact on life in the U.S.It allowed parts to be exchanged or repaired.
a)
Interchangeable Parts
b)
Telegraph
c)
Steel Plow
d)
Railroad
105.
Who invented the cast steel plow?
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
John Deere
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
Wright Brothers
106.
Who invented the telegraph?
a)
Wright Brothers
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
107.
Immigrant
a)
in a way that shows care, determination, or attention to detail
b)
a person who served in the armed forces
c)
a person who makes a permanent home on a frontier
d)
a person who comes to live in a new country especially for the purpose of settling there
108.
Discrimination
a)
a communication system in which text messages are sent using simple electrical signals over wires
b)
a person who designs,builds, or repairs machines, buildings,bridges,or other structures
c)
the unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race,age,religion, or other differences
d)
a person who does physical work for payment
109.
Settler
a)
dangerous or hazardous
b)
a person who does physical work for payment
c)
a person who makes a new permanent home on a frontier
d)
in a way that shows care, determination, or attention to detail
110.
Engineer
a)
a person who served in the armed forces.
b)
a person who designs, builds, or repairs machines, buildings, bridges, or other structures.
c)
the unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race, age, religion, or other differences.
d)
the act of following or seeking someone or something.
111.
Telegraph
a)
the unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race, age, religion, or other differences.
b)
famous for being evil, bad, or dangerous.
c)
to describe or show in a particular way.
d)
a communication system in which text messages are sent using simple electrical signals over wires.
112.
A book a person writes about his or her own self
a)
liberator
b)
biography
c)
autobiography
d)
book
113.
anyone who sets other people free
a)
relatives
b)
liberator
c)
prejudice
d)
jailman
114.
judgment we make before we think
a)
errands
b)
liberator
c)
prejudice
d)
relatives
115.
As an escaped slave, Fredrick Douglass lived in fear of being caught by _________________.
a)
Slave Catchers
b)
The Train Conductor
c)
His Owner
d)
Police
116.
The group that Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started was called the _______.
a)
Women's Abolitionist Organization
b)
National Women Suffrage Organization
c)
Anti-voting association
d)
National Women Abolitionist Group
117.
What does suffrage mean?
a)
being in pain
b)
getting rid of slavery
c)
the right to vote
d)
the right to equal pay
118.
Civil rights are _______________
a)
bill of rights
b)
rights that everyone is born with
c)
the right to vote
d)
the rights of African Americans
119.
Fredrick Douglass was an advisor to
a)
Susan B Anthony
b)
Martin Luther King
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Barack Obama
120.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
a)
Religious Revival
b)
A major decline in religion
c)
Increased effort of embargo and tariffs
d)
Alliances made with other countries
121.
What group of people opposed immigration?
a)
The Whisperes
b)
The Suffaragists
c)
The Nativists
d)
The Ancestors
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