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Reform Movements

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define abolitionist

a)

Sought to bring an end to slavery.

b)

Someone in favor of women's rights.

c)

Wanted to bring an end to the production and consumption of alcohol.

d)

Sought to end the mistreatment of prison inmates.

2.

What was an effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Southerners loved the book.

b)

It described the evils of slavery, and further divided the North & South.

c)

It helped to unite the Northern and Western states.

d)

It caused a slave revolt in the South.

3.

Series of safe houses which helped slaves escape to the North.

a)

Freedom Trail

b)

The Hallelujah Trail

c)

The Underground Railroad

d)

The Peace Train

4.

Escaped slave who published antislavery writings and gave speeches throughout the North.

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Frederick Douglass

5.

Escaped slave who risked her life to help over 300 slaves escape to freedom.

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Douglass

d)

Dorthea Dix

6.

Quaker and abolitionist who published an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Dorthea Dix

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

John Brown

7.

She wrote a novel about the evils of slavery which angered both the North and South.

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Douglas

d)

Dorthea Dix

8.

Which land acquisition was made as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

a)

Annexation of Texas

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Mexican Cession

d)

Florida

9.

What territory was acquired in 1803?

a)

Florida

b)

Louisiana Territory

c)

Oregon Territory

d)

California

10.

What land acquisition was made in 1845?

a)

Texas Annexation

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Mexican Cession

d)

Oregon Territory

11.

What was the name of the land acquired from Mexico in 1848?

a)

Texas Annexation

b)

Florida

c)

California

d)

Mexican Cession

12.

In what year did the Oregon Territory become part of the

U. S.?

a)

1803

b)

1819

c)

1845

d)

1846

13.

Religious group founded by Joseph Smith who were persecuted and moved to Utah.

a)

Quakers

b)

Shakers

c)

Mormons

d)

Presbyterians

14.

Who won the Battle of the Alamo?

a)

Texas

b)

Mexico

c)

Spanish

d)

No one it was a draw

15.

Which president acquired both Oregon, and California to complete our "Manifest Destiny.?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Martin van Buren

c)

John Tyler

d)

James K. Polk

16.

What treaty ended the War with Mexico, also known as the Mexican/American War?

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

c)

Treaty of Mexico

d)

Treaty of Palo Alto

17.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Gold Rush?

a)

San Francisco became a center of banking

b)

Sacramento became an important farming region

c)

California became a slave state

d)

San Francisco became a center of manufacturing

18.

Which of the following was NOT one of the early trails moving west?

a)

Santa Fe Trail

b)

Pacific Trail

c)

Mormon Trail

d)

Oregon Trail

19.

Term for the belief that the U. S. should expand across the whole continent, from the Atlantic to Pacific.

a)

The American Dream

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Providential Expansion

d)

American Destiny

20.

What push factor caused thousand of Irish immigrants to come to America in 1845?

a)

over poulation

b)

religious persecution

c)

economic depression

d)

potato famine

21.

Famous art school founded in New York, inspired by American landscapes.

a)

Hudson River School

b)

American Art Institute

c)

The New York Art Institute

d)

The New York School of Art

22.

Term for the idea not to obey laws you considered unjust, but refuse to obey peacefully.

a)

civil disapproval

b)

civil disobedience

c)

purposeful protest

d)

civil protest

23.

Renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s, this movement helped to inspire many of the reform movements.

a)

The Great Revival

b)

The Faith Awakening

c)

The Second Great Awakening

d)

The Enlightenment

24.

Reform movement which wanted to eliminate the consumption of alcohol.

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Abstinence Movement

c)

Anti-alcohol Movement

d)

Alcohol Abstinence Association (AAA)

25.

Formed by women mill workers, these groups sought better working conditions.

a)

Workers Unions

b)

Mill Workers Union

c)

Labor Unions

d)

Womens Unions

26.

What contribution did Horace Mann make to American society?

a)

Promoted and helped create the first public schools in America

b)

Leader of the Temperance movement

c)

Helped organize the first labor unions

d)

Prison Reform

27.

What was Dorthea Dix role in the Reform Movement?

a)

She led the Temperance Movement

b)

She was the leader of the mill workers movement

c)

Pleaded for improved care for the mentally ill, 32 hospitals were built because of her efforts.

d)

Leader in education reform

28.

Name of the women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

a)

The Seneca Falls Convention

b)

The Women's Rights Convention

c)

The Rights of Women Convention

d)

The League of Women's Rights Convention

29.

Title of the women's declaration written at the convention in Seneca Falls, NY that declared.. "all men and women are created equal."

a)

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

b)

The Women's Declaration of Independence

c)

The Rights of Women

d)

We Hold These Truths

30.

Which of the following was NOT a leader in the women's movement?

a)

Lucretia Mott

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton