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Unit 4.3-Reform Movements

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What did Dorothea Dix want to improve?
a)
Shelters for pets
b)
Equality for African Americans
c)
Conditions in prisons
d)
Food distribution
2.
What event in upstate New York was 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
3.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
a)
Party
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Speech
d)
Religious Movement
4.

A social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

a)

Charles Finney

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Susan B. Anthony

5.
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
6.
organized attempts to improve conditions of life
a)
social reform
b)
revival
c)
declaration of sentiments
d)
fugitive slave act
7.
Abolitionists were Americans who wanted to end
a)
Slavery
b)
discrimination against women
c)
immigration
d)
imprisonment for debt
8.
Why were reforms necessary during the 19th century?
a)
Industrial Revolution brought progress but deepened poorer living
b)
they were not necessary and wasted valuable resources
c)
Necessary because the Industrial Revolution destroyed America
d)
Not necessary caused more harm than good.
9.
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
10.
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
11.
Which reformer worked for women's rights? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
12.
Why was there a need to reform the prison and mental health system?
a)
People who were mentally ill were kept in prisons with criminals
b)
Mental health hospitals were being given too much money
c)
The prison system was too strict
d)
Prisons were forcing people to become mentally ill
13.
A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.
a)
Socialism
b)
Libertarianism
c)
Communism
d)
Transcendentalism
14.

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to —

a)

ban the spread of slavery to new territories

b)

decrease the consumption of alcohol

c)

gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons

d)

create a self-sufficient utopian society

15.
What could women not do in the 19th century?
a)
Hold any job
b)
Vote in national elections
c)
Get married
d)
Learn to read
16.
__________________ is a term used to describe the struggle to earn the right to vote.
a)
Supper
b)
Suffrage
c)
Electoral College
d)
Abolitionist Movement
17.
The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls - 1848, was modeled after which of the following?
a)
the Constitution
b)
the Bill of Rights
c)
the Articles of Confederation
d)
the Declaration of Independence
18.
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery".As leader of the common school movement, he spoke the words above:
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Dorthea Dix
d)
Sojourner Truth
19.
Harriet Tubman was...
a)
a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
b)
A Nurse During the Civil War
c)
A Spy during the Civil War
d)
all of the above
20.
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
21.
Who was an education reformer? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
22.

Who was a Founding Father that had many missions in life including promoting education and set up first public library?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Benjamin Rush

c)

Horace Mann

d)

Noah Webster

23.

An American writer who wrote textbooks for education including a dictionary.

a)

Benjamin Rush

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Noah Webster

d)

Horace Mann

24.

An abolitionist who tried to end slavery by armed resistance and attempted to lead a slave revolt in the South.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John Brown

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Lloyd Garrisoin

25.

Which famous African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery as a runaway?

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Samuel Cornish

d)

Frederick Douglass

26.

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

27.

Who was a former slave with a Michigan connection, who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Sojourner Truth

28.

A white abolitionist who started his own paper called "The Liberator"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Benjamin Rush

d)

Horace Mann

29.

A prominent advocate of women's rights organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and wrote Declaration of Sentiments

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

30.

A social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Susan B Anthony

31.

the time period before the American Civil War

a)

Era of Good Feelings

b)

Antebellum

c)

Paleolithic

d)

Millennial

32.

What were responses of Northerners to the abolitionist movement? Select ALL that apply.

a)

claimed that slavery was necessary to the economy

b)

used newspapers and wrote books to tell the story of slavery and to support ending it.

c)

would raise money to try and buy the freedom of slaves.

d)

formed societies and groups to organize the movement to try and end slavery.

e)

argued that you in all civilizations you need a social hierarchy and a class to lead progress and a class to do the menial duties and to perform the drudgery of life.

33.

What were responses of Northerners to the abolitionist movement? Select ALL that apply.

a)

formed the American Colonization Society and wanted to help free African Americans in the United States return to the continent of Africa.

b)

believed that African Americans were better off under white care than their own

c)

participated in the Underground railroad to help escaped slaves.

d)

argued that slaves were treated well and that factory workers were worse off due to long hours and poor conditions in factories.

34.

What were responses of Southerners to the abolitionist movement? Select ALL that apply.

a)

formed the American Colonization Society and wanted to help free African Americans in the United States return to the continent of Africa.

b)

claimed that slavery was necessary to the economy

c)

argued that you in all civilizations you need a social hierarchy and a class to lead progress and a class to do the menial duties and to perform the drudgery of life.

d)

argued that slaves were treated well and that factory workers were worse off due to long hours and poor conditions in factories.

e)

believed that African Americans were better off under white care than their own

35.

Prominent in many reforms including medicine, education, abolition, and also sought improved education for women.

a)

Benjamin Rush

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Horace Mann

d)

Frederick Douglass

e)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

36.

What was a person called who helped to guide the runaways through the Underground Railroad?

a)

engineer

b)

caboose

c)

conductor

d)

convoy

37.

religious meeting

a)

temperance

b)

civil disobedience

c)

abolitionist

d)

revival

38.

drinking little or no alcohol

a)

suffrage

b)

antebellum

c)

temperance

d)

revival

39.

refusing to obey laws considered unjust

a)

civil disobedience

b)

revival

c)

abolitionist

d)

antebellum

40.

person who sought the end of slavery in the early 1800's

a)

temperance

b)

revivial

c)

suffrage

d)

abolitionists

41.

the right to vote

a)

revival

b)

suffrage

c)

temperance

d)

antebellum

42.

the time period before the American Civil War

a)

civil disobedience

b)

Era of Good Feelings

c)

antebellum

d)

temperance

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