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Age of Reform

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted...
a)
Spiritual revival and the need for social reform. 
b)
Quakers, because slavery contradicted religious beliefs. 
c)
State's Rights  and governmental reform.
d)
Mercantilism and the development of global trade. 
2.
Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?
a)
American Indians, because they viewed the plight of the slaves as similar to their own. 
b)
Quakers, because slavery contradicted religious beliefs. 
c)
British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade. 
d)
Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery. 
3.
The Hudson River School artists were influenced by the... 
a)
success of social reform movements in the U.S. 
b)
Migration of settlers to the U.S. frontier. 
c)
Natural landscapes of the U.S. 
d)
Environmental effects of U.S. Industralization
4.
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. 
5.

What was one major impact of this novel?

a)

The profits from book sales funded early labor organizations.

b)

Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves.

c)

The Supreme Court overturned fugitive laws.

d)

Support grew for the abolitionist movement.

6.
A tourist would most likely go to the location shown on the map to visit...
a)
the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Women's Rights National Historical Park
b)
Historic Jamestown in Colonial National Historical Park
c)
Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park
d)
George Washington's Headquarters in Valley Forge National Historical Park
7.

Which of the following was an argument made against slavery in the Thirteen Colonies?

a)

Manufacturers argues that slavery discouraged the development of industry.

b)

Farmers argues that using slave labor was expensive and inefficient.

c)

Quakers argues that slavery violated Christian principles.

d)

Puritans argues that the slave trade encouraged materialism.

8.
The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?
a)
12th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
9.
What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?
a)
Churches turned away from public politics and focused on internal religious issues. 
b)
People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems. 
c)
Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women. 
d)
Politicians were encouraged to promote states' rights rather than federal unity. 
10.
*Popular essayist and lecturer
*Promote individualism and self-reliance
*Works included "Nature" and "The American Scholar"
Which movement did Emerson lead?
a)
Temperance
b)
Abolitionism
c)
The Second Great Awakening
d)
Transcendentalism
11.
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
12.
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
13.
I led a famous rebellion of slaves, in which we killed 55 whites.
a)
Horace Mann
b)
Levi Coffin
c)
Nat Turner
d)
William Lloyd Garrison
14.

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 and a famous newspaper editor.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Sojourner Truth

15.
Temperance was the movement to stop the use of ________ during the mid-1800s.
a)
tobacco
b)
slavery
c)
factories
d)
alcohol
16.
Which reformer worked for women's rights? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
17.
Who was an education reformer? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
18.
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
19.
What does abolition mean?
a)
To partially stop 
b)
To increase something
c)
To spread an action over time
d)
To do away with
20.

Which of these revolts is when slaves killed their owners and their families?

a)

Pontiac's Rebellion

b)

Whiskey Rebellion

c)

Nat Turner Rebellion

d)

Bacon's Rebellion

21.
Why is Harriet Beecher Stowe important?
a)
She wrote Sleepy Hollow
b)
She started the Women's Rights movement
c)
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
d)
She started the temperance movement
22.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were important leaders of which movement?
a)
Women's RIghts
b)
Education Reform
c)
Mentally Ill Reform
d)
Prison Reform
23.
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention Held?
a)
Boston
b)
New Jersey
c)
Seneca Falls 
d)
Washington D.C. 
24.
Stopping the drinking of alcohol goes along with which reform movement?
a)
Women's Rights
b)
Education Reform
c)
Abolition Movement
d)
Temperance Movement
25.
The belief that you could find the truth within and learn from nature and participate in civil disobedience to protest a law.
a)
Romanticism
b)
Fireside poetry
c)
Transcendentalism
d)
Hudson River School
26.
The name of William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper was ______. 
a)
The Liberator
b)
The North Star
c)
Ending Slavery
d)
The Declaration of Sentiments
27.
The most famous person to ever help slaves escape the Underground Railroad.
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Noah Webster
d)
Dorthea Dix
28.
Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
a)
Leader in the abolitionist movement
b)
First woman doctor in the United States
c)
Leader in improving American schools
d)
Organizer of the Women's Rights Convention
29.
What do we call the religious followers who established a settlement in Utah? 
a)
Adventists
b)
Catholics
c)
Mormons
d)
Quakers
30.

Who was the FOUNDER of the the Church of Latter Day Saints or Mormons?

a)

Jospeh Smith

b)

Brigham Young

c)

Davy Crockett

d)

Andrew Jackson

31.

Group of early abolitionists that transported freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves.

a)

American Anti-Slavery Society

b)

American Colonization Society

c)

Nat Turner's Rebellion

d)

Liberia

32.

Sisters from Charleston, South Carolina who wrote and lectured on reform causes such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and the abolitionist movement.

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Grimke

c)

Lucretia Mott

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

33.

The invention that transformed the southern cotton economy and increased the Southern desire for slavery was

a)

the sewing machine

b)

the mechanical reaper

c)

the cotton gin

d)

the steamboat

34.

Another term for voting.

a)

temperance

b)

suffrage

c)

abolitionism

d)

transcendentalism

35.

Seneca Falls Convention, July 1848

*the nation's first women's rights convention

*?

a)

Brought together the two main rival women''s suffrage groups

b)

Endorsed a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery

c)

Ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote

d)

Issued the Declaration of Sentiments, calling for voting rights for women

36.

What was the effect of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

a)

Increased support for women's rights.

b)

Industries implemented labor unions for worker's rights.

c)

Resulted in the outlawing the Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Caused abolitionist movement to grow.

37.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

a series of tunnels dug underground to help slaves reach freedom

b)

a network of railroad lines that would sneak slaves to the north

c)

a colonization movement that tried to transport slaves back to Africa

d)

a network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom "station" by "station"

38.

Author of the Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven; his stories dealt with the workings of the mind and tended to be dark.

a)

Herman Melville

b)

James Fenimore Cooper

c)

Edgar Allen Poe

d)

Mark Twain

39.

Immigrants that settled mainly in the Midwest ; they were escaping political unrest in Central Europe.

a)

Germans

b)

Irish

c)

Chinese

d)

British

40.

An extreme scarcity or shortage of food is called

a)

fatigue

b)

rationing

c)

famine

d)

temperance

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