WorksheetsUnit 10 - Reform Movements
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the anti-slavery movement?
As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, she led many fugitive slaves to freedom.
She lectured members of the American Anti-Slavery Society about the evils of slavery.
As the founder of a southern anti-slavery group, she helped stage many peaceful slave strikes.
She wrote many essays persuading southern slaveholders to join the abolition movement.
What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?
They had each learned to read and write as children, despite laws against it.
The Anti-Slavery Society invited each of them to give regular lectures.
They were both former slaves who contributed to the abolitionist cause.
The autobiography was their chosen form for exposing the injustices of slavery.
Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to
Teaching religion.
Eliminating slavery.
Helping people in prison.
Establishing public schools.
Who said the following quote?
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men- the balance wheel of the social machinery.”
Elizabeth Blackwell
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
Horace Mann
Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?
Politicians
Abolitionists
Missionaries
Transcendentalists
The ________________ was a movement of Christian renewal that swept through the United States during the 1790s and the early 1800s.
Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening
Temperance Movement
Common-School Movement
How did the “Second Great Awakening” promote social reform?
Participants believed that conditions on Earth could NOT be improved.
Participants grew tired of religion and became social reformers instead.
Participants wanted to apply Christian beliefs to important social issues.
Participants were no longer concerned with their own personal salvation.
Which of these was the model for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?
Bill of Rights
Monroe Doctrine
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was significant because it
Forced the government to discuss petitions against slavery.
Marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.
Granted women the right to participate in the voting process.
Revealed the need for temperance and educational reforms.
Which of these was an obstacle for women who were working to end slavery in the United States?
They were not allowed to vote.
They were not allowed to attend school.
They could not voice their opinions.
They could not travel throughout the country.
