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WorksheetsChapter 14: Movements in America (1815-1860)
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Between 1840 and 1860 more than 4 million immigrants came to the U S, with more than 3 million of them arriving from Ireland and _________________.
a)
Britain
b)
Germany
c)
France
d)
Italy
2.
Many of the Irish who immigrated to the U S in the 1840s came ti escape starvation in their country, which was caused by a _____________ blight.
a)
potato
b)
tomato
c)
corn
d)
wheat
3.
Germans were more likely than the Irish to become ______________ and to live in rural areas where there was more land available, particularly in the Midwestern states.
a)
Lumber Jacks
b)
Farmers
c)
Railroad workers
d)
Hunters
4.
Prior to the arrival of the new Catholic immigrants, most people who lived in the United States were
a)
Puritans
b)
Quakers
c)
Protestants
d)
Agnostic
5.
U.S. citizens who viewed immigrants with fear and suspicion and who were opposed to immigration were called
a)
Democrats
b)
Hawks
c)
Doves
d)
Nativists
6.
Members of the _____________ Party wanted to exclude Catholics and foreigners from public office and to require immigrants to live in the U S for 21 years before they could become citizens.
a)
Democratic
b)
Republican
c)
Know-nothing
d)
Know-everything
7.
U S cities grew rapidly during the mid-1800s, particularly in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states, where three fourths of the nation's _____________jobs were located.
a)
farming
b)
building
c)
manufacturing
d)
cleaning
8.
The families of Northeast merchants, manufacturers, professionals , and master craftspeople made up a growing _____________, which was a social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor.
a)
consortium
b)
middle class
c)
voting block
d)
lower class
9.
Urban residents of the mid-1800s often lived in dirty, overcrowded, and poorly built housing called___.
a)
slums
b)
ghetto
c)
apartments
d)
tenements
10.
The ____________ epidemics of 1832 and 1849 in New York City hit Irish immigrants particularly hard.
a)
flu
b)
cholera
c)
small pox
d)
polio
11.
One group of New England writers and thinkers sought spiritual inspiration from transcendentalism, the idea that people could rise above the material things in life.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Henry David Thoreau wrote
a)
"Self-Reliance"
b)
"Walden"
13.
Thomas Cole was a leading romantic painter and part of the Hudson River School.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
One of the best-known examples of romantic literature is Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Scarlet Letter, about Puritan society in the 1600's.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Many people consider Moby Dick to be one of the finest American novels ever written.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular poet of the mid-1800s.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
Utopian communities wanted to form
a)
Urban legends
b)
Perfect society
18.
American Romanticism involved
a)
A great interest in nature
b)
an emphasis on individual expression
c)
a rejection of many established rules
d)
all of the above
19.
The first co-educational college in the United States was
a)
Harvard College
b)
Oberlin College
c)
Princeton University
d)
Yale University
20.
Many leaders of the reform efforts in the United States were members of the
a)
Middle class
b)
Wealthiest class
c)
Working poor
d)
poorest class
21.
How did the common-school movement get its name?
a)
from the effort to ensure that all immigrant children received only enough basic education to hold jobs
b)
from the effort to ensure that all U.S. children shared a common curriculum
c)
from the nationwide effort to build all school with a common architecture
d)
from the effoirt to have all children regardless of class or background educated in a common place.
22.
Which of the following was the first college-level institution for women?
a)
The Catherine Beecher School
b)
Mount Holyoke Seminary
c)
Troy Female Seminary
d)
Oberlin College
23.
The leading voice for educational reform in the mid-1800s was
a)
William Holmes McGuffey
b)
Josiah Quincy
c)
Horace Mann
d)
Lyman Beecher
24.
The government of Massachusetts responded to Dorothea Dix's pleas by
a)
housing mentally ill people with criminals
b)
ignoring her
c)
having her arrested
d)
creating separate facilities for people with mental illnesses.
25.
Americans' concerns about the negative effects of alcohol led to the growth of a(n)
a)
temperance movement
b)
utopian movement
c)
evangelical movement
d)
transcendental movement
26.
Dorothea Dix began a campaign to help people with mental illnesses after being outraged by the way they were treated at
a)
hospitals
b)
jails
c)
health clinics
d)
schools
27.
The first college to accept African Americans was
a)
Princeton University
b)
Harvard College
c)
Dartmouth College
d)
Oberlin College
28.
Thomas Gallaudet established
a)
the first free U.S. school for people with hearing impairments
b)
the nation's first school for teacher training
c)
a U. S. school for people with visual imparments
d)
the first African American college in the United States.
29.
complete end to slavery
a)
abolition
b)
emancipation
c)
apartheid
d)
freedom
30.
term that means freedom from slavery
a)
abolition
b)
emancipation
c)
apartheid
d)
freedom
31.
One of the first groups, starting in colonial times, to challege slavery on religious grounds
a)
Protestants
b)
Puritans
c)
Quakers
d)
Baptists
32.
group that established the colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822 for the resettlement of freed African Americans
a)
Quakers
b)
American Colonization Society
c)
Puritans
d)
American Anti-Slavery Society
33.
Who was considered the "Moses" of her people
a)
Sojourney Truth
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Lucy Stone
d)
Angelina Grimke
34.
person who published an antislavery newspaper, the Liberator, and ehlped found the American Anti-Slavery Society
a)
Horace Greeley
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Angelina Grimke
d)
Frederick Douglass
35.
group that demanded immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans
a)
American Colonization Society
b)
Puritans
c)
Quakers
d)
American Anti-Slavery Society
36.
person who tried to bring southern women to the antislavery cause through publication of the pamphlet Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
a)
Horace Greeley
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Angelina Grimke
d)
Frederick Douglas
37.
former slave who became one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s
a)
Horace Greeley
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Angelina Grimke
d)
Frederick Douglass
38.
network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for escaped slaves
a)
Puritans
b)
Quakers
c)
Underground Railroad
d)
AAA
39.
Many women who had been active in the ___________ movement also became active in the women's rights movement of the mid-1800s.
a)
suffragette
b)
abolition
c)
temperance
d)
emancipation
40.
Activist __________ wrote and spoke about equal educational opportunities for women, identified laws that negatively affected women, and demanded equal pay for equal work.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Margaret Fuller
c)
Sarah Grimke
d)
Ann Lee
41.
Many activists were concerned that women could not vote or sit on juries and that married women in many states had little or no control over their own___________.
a)
minds
b)
property
c)
children
d)
cattle
42.
Wife of a Founding Father who asked that they "Remember the Ladies" and their rights in the Declaration of Independence.
a)
Martha Washington
b)
Dolly Madison
c)
Abigail Adams
d)
Eliza Hamilton
43.
In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held the _______________ in New York to organize a women's right movement.
a)
Democratic Convention
b)
Republican Convention
c)
Seneca Falls Convention
d)
Cady Motts Convention
44.
The organizers of the convention wrote a ________________, modeled on the language of the Declaration of Independence, which detailed their beliefs about social injustice against women.
a)
Constitution
b)
Declaration of Sentiments
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
Temperance
45.
The right to vote in political elections
a)
suffocate
b)
succotash
c)
suffrage
d)
suffering
46.
Activist ____________ encouraged women to keep their maiden names when they married.
a)
Lucy Stone
b)
Sarah Grimke
c)
Angelina Grimke
d)
Dorothea Dix
47.
Quaker ______________ was arrested and fined $100 for voting in a presidential election.
a)
Lucy Stone
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Angelina Grimke
d)
Lucretia Mott
48.
A freed African American who was a powerful supporter of both abolition and women's rights
a)
Sojourner Truth
b)
Lucy Stone
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Dolly Madison
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