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Reform Movements

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

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.

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

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Dorthea Dix

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

John Brown

5.

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)

6.

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

a)

Workers Unions

b)

Mill Workers Union

c)

Labor Unions

d)

Womens Unions

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The _________ was a political organization founded by people who opposed immigrants and Catholics.

a)

Know-Nothing Party

b)

Democratic- Republicans

c)

Federalists

d)

Whigs

12.
A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.
a)
Socialism
b)
Libertarianism
c)
Communism
d)
Transcendentalism
13.
He was a transcendentalist and was from New England.
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Edgar Allen Poe
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Nathaniel Hawthorne