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WorksheetsSocial Reforms and Reformers
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What were forces supporting reforms?
a)
Democratic ideas
b)
Religious views
c)
Both of these
2.
Who was the first person to push for education reform in the early 1800s?
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Neal Dow
d)
William Loyd Garrison
3.
What did Horace Mann accomplish as a pioneer of education?
a)
Started the first Board of State Education
b)
Created public schools
c)
Established schools to educate teachers and set up the first state teacher college
d)
All of these
4.
True or false the early temperance/prohibition movement pushed for a complete ban on alcohol?
a)
True, people believed that it must be removed from society
b)
False, the early movement was about moderation not elimination
5.
Who was on of the men who lead the Temperance moment?
a)
William Loyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglas
c)
Neal Dow
d)
James Mott
6.
What was part of the "Cult of True Womanhood"?
a)
She was Pious and Pure
b)
She was Domestic
c)
Submissive to her husband
d)
All of these
7.
What was a woman legally considered in the early to mid-1800s in many states?
a)
Legally considered an adult with the right to own property and vote
b)
Legally a ward of her husband or father with the legal status of a minor
c)
Legal status of an adult but no right to own property
d)
Right to own property but not legally considered an adult
8.
What was something that Husbands were considered responsible for in some states?
a)
Their wives crimes
b)
Punishing their wives
c)
Both of these
d)
Neither of these
9.
Who wrote the Woman in the 19th Century, which discussed the struggle of women in this period?
a)
Margaret Fuller
b)
Francis Wright
c)
Sarah Grimke
d)
Harriet Wilson
10.
Who was the first African American to publish in North America and publish a novel on racism?
a)
Sorjourner Truth
b)
Harriet Wilson
c)
Frederick Douglas
d)
Harriet Tubman
11.
What occurs in 1848 that makes it a good year for women?
a)
The Seneca Falls Convention
b)
Married women property acts are passed in some states
c)
Anesthesia was finally allowed to be used in child birth
d)
All of these
12.
Who was a African American abolitionist and woman's right activist and became the first African American to win in court against a white man?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Sorjourner Truth
c)
Frederick Douglas
d)
Harriet Wilson
13.
Who was the driving force behind the Seneca Falls Convention?
a)
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Francis Wright
c)
Francis Wright and Sarah Grimke
d)
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Wilson
14.
What did the women at Seneca Falls demand?
a)
They demanded Reforms, specifically the right to vote
b)
They demanded to be seen as better than men
c)
They demanded that black men also have the right to vote
d)
None of these
15.
What event slowed down many of these reforms?
a)
Women's rights conventions
b)
The Nullification Crisis
c)
The Civil War
d)
The Anti-Slavery Movement
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