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WorksheetsChapter 15 and 16 Immigration and Reform
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 33mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which reformer worked for women's rights?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
2.
Who was an education reformer?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
3.
Who was instrumental in the reform movement of the treatment of the insane?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.
Which of the following statements is true about prison reforms during the mid-1800s?
a)
Some prisoners were not criminals, but were mentally ill
b)
some prisoners were chained to the walls
c)
some prisoners were in unheated cells with little or no clothing
d)
all choices given are true
5.
I published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator." I wanted freedom and equality for all African Americans.
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
John Brown
d)
Levi Coffin
6.
I was the most famous ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad. I led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
a)
John Brown
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
David Walker
d)
Nat Turner
7.
I helped get a law passed that allowed married women to gain ownership of the wages and property that they earned. I also believed in “equal pay for equal work.”
a)
Carrie Nation
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sarah Grimke
d)
Susan B. Anthony
8.
I escaped slavery and became one of America’s best speakers and writers about the horrors of slavery. I was a personal friend to Abraham Lincoln.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Sojourner Truth
9.
I was a former slave who stood 6 feet tall and challenged the idea that women were the “weaker sex.”
a)
Victoria Woodhull
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Lucy Stone
d)
Angelina Grimke
10.
The _________ was a political organization founded by people who opposed immigrants and Catholics.
a)
Know-Nothing Party
b)
Know-Everything Party
c)
Tell-Nothing Party
d)
Tell-Everything Party
11.
Temperance was the movement to stop the use of ________ during the mid-1800s.
a)
tobacco
b)
slavery
c)
factories
d)
alcohol
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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
16.
organized attempts to improve conditions of life
a)
social reform
b)
revival
c)
declaration of sentiments
d)
fugitive slave act
17.
He was a transcendentalist and was from New England.
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Edgar Allen Poe
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
18.
A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.
a)
Socialism
b)
Libertarianism
c)
Communism
d)
Transcendentalism
19.
Which Transcendentalist used civil disobedience to protest taxes?
a)
Baron de Montesquieu
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
John Locke
d)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20.
Sojourner Truth was a abolitionist and a women's rights leader.
a)
True
b)
False
21.
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.
22.
Abolitionists were Americans who wanted to end
a)
Slavery
b)
discrimination against women
c)
immigration
d)
imprisonment for debt
23.
Chinese immigrants contributed to Industrialization and Westward expansion by -
a)
working in textile mills.
b)
voting for expansion and innovation legislation.
c)
working as cheap labor on cotton plantations.
d)
constructing the Transcontinental Railroad.
24.
Which was an important effect of the "Second Great Awakening"?
a)
Andrew Jackson was elected President
b)
President Jackson refused to renew the National Bank
c)
Protestant Evangelicals sought to end slavery and achieve other reforms
25.
In the 1840s, Seneca Falls, New York, became the scene of an important convention for -
a)
women's rights
b)
labor union organization
c)
temperance reform
d)
prison reforms
26.
In what way did the ideas of the Declaration of Sentiments differ from the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence?
a)
The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Thomas Jefferson
b)
The Declaration of Independence granted voting rights to men and women
c)
The Declaration of Independence supported the idea of nullification
d)
The Declaration of Sentiments included the equality of men and women
27.
_________________ was an important leader in education reform.
a)
George Whitfield
b)
Dorthea Dix
c)
Horace Mann
d)
Fredrick Douglas
28.
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
29.
Which of the following was associated with women's sufferage?
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Susan B. Anthony
30.
Which of the following was a problem that instigated (brought about) the reforms?
a)
alcoholism was destroying families
b)
prisons were poorly run
c)
children lacked proper education
d)
all of the above
31.
What was the name of the weekly abolitionist newspaper?
a)
The New York Sun
b)
Chattanooga Daily Rebel
c)
National Enquirer
d)
The Liberator
32.
What caused an increase in Irish immigration during the 19th century?
a)
Religious Persecution
b)
Civil War
c)
Potato Famine
d)
Low Wages
33.
What directly caused the U.S. to begin industrializing?
a)
Mexican-American War
b)
War of 1812
c)
Civil War
d)
French and Indian War
34.
The Know-Nothing party was
a)
anti-alcohal
b)
anti-immigration
c)
against unsafe work conditions in factories
d)
overcrowding in cities.
35.
What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?
a)
churches turned away from religion and focused on politics
b)
people were inspired to join reform movements
c)
religious leaders petitioned the government for funding
d)
churches promoted states' rights
36.
What is most responsible for the increase in U.S. Slave Population?
a)
Northern Factories and war with Britain
b)
Southern Climate and the Cotton Gin
c)
Invention of railroads and use of telegraph
d)
Southern use of steamboats and steel plows
37.
Which Reform movement most closely associates with the term "suffrage?"
a)
Education Reform
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Women's Rights Movement
38.
Which artist produced the book 'Birds of America' in 1827?
a)
Albert Bierstadt
b)
John James Audubon
c)
Nathaniel Hathorne
d)
Walt Whitman
39.
Which writer encouraged civil disobedience and authored the novel 'Walden' after spending two years in the woods?
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Walt Whitman
c)
Henry David Thoreau
d)
Asher Durand
40.
How did Harriet Tubman help slaves?
a)
She helped injured and sick slaves hurt their masters.
b)
She brought food to the slaves who were starving.
c)
She offered the escaped slaves a place to live.
d)
She helped them escape through the Underground Railroad.
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