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WorksheetsModule 8 Quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Women having to restrict their activities after marriage to the home and family was known as:
The Cult of Inequality
The Cult of Domesticity
The Cult of Reform
The Cult of Time
What was the outcome of Nat Turner’s rebellion?
The rebellion ended peacefully with no casualties
Turner and the slaves in the uprising were awarded freedom for their bravery
The rebellion led to southern slave owners to call for the end of slavery
Turner was captured and whites would retaliate against the rebels
What group was mostly hired at the Lowell Mills?
Females
Immigrants
Slaves
Males
What was the main goal of the temperance movement?
To abolish slavery
To improve working conditions
To improve the education system
To prohibit the drinking of alcohol
In contrast to the early days of slavery, by 1830 the majority of slaves:
Had been freed in every state except Virginia
Had been born in America and spoke English
Had been given the right to vote and own land
Lived in cities and worked in factories
Which of the following were true of the conditions in most American prisons in the early 1800's? Select 2 answers.
The prisoners were well fed
The prisons were overcrowded
The prisoners were treated in a humane manner
The prisons housed people who were mentally ill
Which of the following was the main goal of prison reforms?
To increase the number of people sent to prison
To house the mentally ill and prisoners in the same place
to increase the punishment of prisoners for their past crimes
to focus on rehabilitating prisoners to a useful position in society
What was the main objective of William Lloyd Garrison's paper, The Liberator
To advise blacks to fight for freedom rather than waiting for slave owners to end slavery
To demand the immediate end of slavery with no payment to slaveholders
To inform readers of the harsh realities of slavery
To call on the government to condemn slavery
Which of the following was true of free blacks in the South?
Most free black southerners had the right to vote
Free blacks in the South could attned any school they chose
Free blacks in the South had to prove they were gainfully employed
Most free southern blacks had a wide variety of jobs available to them
What was the main goal of the Temperance Movement?
To abolish slavery
To improve healthcare
To improve education for women
To prohibit the drinking of alcohol
Which of the following was an outcome of the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women were grated the right to vote
A law was passed that abolished slavery
Women gained improved educational opportunities
A declaration was approved that proclaimed women were equal to men
Which of the following were the main objectives of labor unions? Select 2 answers.
Raising wages
Eliminating child labor
Shortening the workday
Increasing the amount of vacation time.
Between the years of 1830 to 1860, what group of immigrants made up the highest percentage and settled mostly in the large cities of the Northeast?
German
British
Dutch
Irish
William Lloyd Garrison was a radical white abolitionist who started his own paper named:
The Abolition
The Liberator
The Virginia Times
The Southerner
What was NOT described as an evil of alcohol by the temperance societies?
Sickness
Poverty
Government Corruption
Break-up of families
What document was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled on?
The U.S. Constitution
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
What Reform Movement was Dorothea Dix involved heavily in?
Prison Reform
Education Reform
Sports Reform
Womens Reform
Why did some Americans oppose a tax-supported public school system?
People thought that schools could not produce responsible citizens.
Parents feared that schools would teach children foreign languages.
People believed that schools would prevent children from having better economic opportunities.
Parents of children in private schools did not want to support schools that their children did not attend.
