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Reform Practice

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which amendment to the Constitution provides for universal women's suffrage?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

2.
Suffrage means the right to _______________.
a)
own a firearm
b)
vote in political elections
c)
practice your religion
d)
free speech
3.

What is the purpose of Seneca Falls Convention?

a)

abolish slavery

b)

support abortion

c)

support the temperance movement

d)

raise awareness for women's rights

4.

Which suffragist helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Elizabeth Cady Staton

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Abigail Adams

5.
Which invention contributed to the expansion of slavery in the South?
a)
mechanical reaper
b)
steam boat
c)
cotton gin
d)
interchangeable parts
6.

What was the Temperance Movement?

a)

When the earth cools fast and causes it to move

b)

The movement to make more people drink alcohol in the United States

c)

The movement to limit alcohol drinking in the United States and other countries

d)

When everyone started to pour alcohol on cats

7.

What was the goal of the American Temperance Society?

a)

Spread more slavery out west

b)

Increase alcohol consumption

c)

Create a more perfect America

d)

Decrease alcohol usage

8.

What would be the name of this landmark?

a)

Wounded Knee

b)

Fort McHenry

c)

Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Gettysburg

9.

Which movement would match up to this woman?

a)

Education

b)

2nd Great Awakening

c)

Prison Reform

d)

Abolishment

10.

Which person is connected to the free public education?

a)

Horace Grant

b)

Horace, the Egyptian sky god

c)

Horace Mann

d)

Mrs. Mann, our art teacher

11.

Where would the mentally ill be sent?

a)

Islands off the coast of France

b)

Prisons

c)

To work in hot dog factories

d)

Corbett Junior High

12.

What did the 2nd Great Awakening have to do with the Reform Movement?

a)

It inspired people to try and do good things

b)

It caused fear of an angry God

c)

It made America stay woke about extraterrestrials

d)

It fixed the shortage of laborers in the factories

13.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both fought for_______________________.

a)

expansion of slavery

b)

women's suffrage

c)

prison reform

d)

public education

14.

Between 1846 and 1855 the population of Ireland decreased by a third, including the 1.5 million Irish immigrants who left for the United States. What was the primary reason for this migration?

a)

Massive unemployment because of British occupation een Catholics and Protestants

b)

Political unrest during an economic recession

c)

Famine caused by a major crop failure.

d)

Civil war between Catholics and Protestants

15.

One of the consequences of the invention of the cotton gin was that --

a)

Production became more profitable so the need for slaves in the south increased.

b)

Northern farmers began to plant cotton.

c)

Foreign textile mills refused to buy American cotton.

d)

The price of cotton increased dramatically.

16.

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

a)

Urban populations expanded rapidly.

b)

Government regulation of factories increased.

c)

Farms experienced a shortage of labor.

d)

Demand for artisans increased.

17.

parts that are manufactured to be identical

a)

suffrage

b)

communication

c)

interchangeable parts

d)

mechanization

18.

process of migrating from rural to urban areas

a)

suffrage

b)

transcontinental

c)

urbanization

d)

factory system

19.

Goals - To outlaw and end slavery. Believed slavery was morally wrong.

Leaders - Harriet Beecher Stowe, William L. Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass

a)

Abolition

b)

Education Reform

c)

Prison Reform

d)

Temperance Movement

20.

The "Second Great Awakening" refers to ...

a)

an unprecedented number of college enrollments.

b)

a period of religious engagement connected with westward expansion.

c)

the name of the movement to abolish slavery.

d)

a European effort to encourage U.S. immigration.

21.

What type of painting became the most famous during the era of westward expansion, especially those of the Hudson River artists?

a)

Biblical images

b)

portraits

c)

landscapes

d)

photographs

22.
Which Reform movement most closely associates with the term "slavery?"
a)
Abolitionist Movement
b)
Prison Reform Movement
c)
Women's Rights
23.

Free African American who wrote the newspaper the North Star

a)

John Brown

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Fredrick Douglass

d)

Elijah Lovejoy

24.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is well known because she fought for ...

a)

slavery

b)

women's suffrage

c)

popular sovereignty

25.

Who was the "conductor" on the Underground Railroad who led over 300 enslaved people to freedom?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

26.

Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were all:

a)

Leaders of the temperance movement

b)

Leaders of the abolitionist movement

c)

Textile mill workers

d)

Leaders of the women's rights movement

27.

Henry David Thoreau used civil disobedience to protest what event?

a)

The Texas Annexation

b)

The Mexican War

c)

The Gold Rush

d)

The American Revolution

28.

Who were the very first abolitionists?

a)

The Quakers

b)

The Puritans

c)

The Southerners

d)

The Founding Fathers

29.

Immigrants from these two countries came to the United States in large numbers in the 1800s.

a)

Ireland and Germany

b)

France and Germany

c)

France and Ireland

d)

France and Italy

30.

The Grimke Sisters were leaders in which movement?

a)

Temperance

b)

Hospital Reform

c)

Voting Rights

d)

Abolition

31.

Who was the leader of the Education Reform movement?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Horace Mann

c)

The Grimke Sisters

d)

Frederick Douglass

32.

How did Dorothea Dix influence the United States?

a)

By working for better treatment for people with mental illnesses.

b)

By working for women's rights.

c)

By working against slavery.

d)

By helping to create a women's convention.

33.

Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator?"

a)

Horace Mann

b)

Angelina Grimke

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

John Adams

34.

Why did many people immigrate from Ireland to the United States?

a)

Potato famine in Ireland

b)

Bad politics

c)

Cheap tickets

d)

Vacations

35.

Where did artists go to learn about painting American landscapes?

a)

Harvard University

b)

Hudson River School

c)

Ohio River School

d)

The University of Art and Literature

36.

The type of economy in the US that allows people to own and run any legal business they want:

a)

Communism

b)

Recession

c)

Controlled Enterprise

d)

Free Enterprise

37.

Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper called "The North Star?"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Sarah Grimke