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Reforming America

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote the Scarlet Letter?

a)

Herman Melville

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Emily Dickinson

2.

Who wrote about Moby Dick?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Edgar Allen Poe

c)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

d)

Herman Melville

3.

Who wrote un-rhymed poems?

a)

Edgar Allen Poe

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Herman Melville

4.

Who wrote about love, death, God and nature?

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

c)

Edgar Allen Poe

d)

Walt Whitman

5.

Who wrote the first detective story and horror stories?

a)

Edgar Allen Poe

b)

Herman Melville

c)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

d)

Walt Whitman

6.

This means to peacefully refuse to follow the laws.

a)

Emigrant

b)

Immigrant

c)

Civil Disobedience

d)

Steerage

7.

A person who leaves (exits) their country.

a)

emigrant

b)

immigrant

c)

strike

d)

steerage

8.

A group that bans together for better working conditions

a)

Abolition

b)

Strike

c)

Labor Union

d)

Steerage

9.

Movement to end slavery

a)

Strike

b)

Abolition

c)

Labor Union

d)

Suffrage

10.

Renewed interest in religion

a)

Second Great Awakening

b)

Temperance Movment

c)

Prejudice

d)

Suffrage

11.

The right to vote

a)

Strike

b)

Abolition

c)

Temperance Movement

d)

Suffrage

12.

Who built the women's movement into a national organization?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Frederick Douglass

13.

Who was the most famous woman conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Frederick Douglass

14.

Who escaped slavery and won a court case to get her son back?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Emily Dickinson

15.

Who wrote a biography about life as a slave and started an anti-slavery newspaper?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Susan B. Anthony

16.

This means to stop working to demand better working conditions.

a)

labor union

b)

strike

c)

abolition

d)

suffrage

17.

Negative opinion based on information that cannot be proven.

a)

discrimination

b)

abolition

c)

suffrage

d)

prejudice

18.

People who settle in a new country.

a)

emigrant

b)

immigrant

c)

steerage

d)

Irish

19.

The cheapest deck on a the ship. Filthy and overcrowded

a)

abolition

b)

suffrage

c)

emigrant

d)

steerage

20.

A campaign to stop drinking alcohol.

a)

Abolition

b)

Suffrace

c)

Temperance Movment

d)

Civil Disobedience