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Reform Movements

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

What term was used to describe a person who wanted to see slavery come to an end?

a)

a liberator

b)

a federalist

c)

a loyalist

d)

an abolitionist

2.

What was the purpose of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

a)

to help slaves escape

b)

to get revenge against former owners

c)

to describe what freedom is like

d)

to inform others about slavery

3.

Why did William Lloyd Garrison publish The Liberator?

a)

He published this newspaper to help women gain more rights.

b)

He wrote this newspaper as an autobiography to share the horrors of slavery.

c)

He published this newspaper to share that slavery was wrong and should be abolished.

d)

He published this newspaper to show his support for slavery and slave labor in the South.

4.

What do Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman have in common?

a)

They all started schools for African-American children.

b)

They all published newspapers supporting voting rights for women.

c)

They were all factory owners during the Industrial Revolution.

d)

They were all slaves who escaped and worked to end slavery.

5.

Who was the first African-American woman to become well-known as an anti-slavery speaker?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Virginia Brown

6.

This poster announces a special meeting. Who would have most likely put up this poster during the Antebellum Era?

a)

an abolitionist

b)

a plantation owner

c)

a southern politician

d)

a slave trader

7.

What was one consequence of the completion of the Erie Canal?

a)

It created stronger economic ties between the Northeast and the Midwest.

b)

It increased economic incentives for states to end slavery.

c)

It led to increased trade between the North and the South.

d)

It created a need for a strong naval presence near the nation’s northern border.

8.

This is an excerpt from a document written in 1848:

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among

these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the

governed.... The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the

establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.


This document marks the start of which movement?

a)

abolition

b)

education reform

c)

temperance

d)

women’s rights

9.

This list includes several important people in American history:

Frederick Douglass

Elihu Embree

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman


Which title best completes this chart?

a)

Abolitionist Leaders

b)

African American Reformers

c)

Leaders of the Women’s Movement

d)

Underground Railroad Operators

10.

During the Second Great Awakening...

a)

the church declined.

b)

emphasized original sin and reliance on the church for salvation.

c)

there was no tolerance for different religions.

d)

emphasize hard work as a way to achieve salvation.

11.

Tennessean __________ published The Emancipator, which was the first publication in the U.S. that was only about the anti-slavery cause.

a)

Elihu Embree

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Nathan Bedford Forrest

12.

________________ traveled the country and told her story of being a slave and what being enslaved meant to her children.

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13.

___________ and _____________ started the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

a)

Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

c)

Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott

d)

Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth

14.

Former slave, ___________, published both an autobiography and an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star.

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Elihu Embree

15.

A journalist named ___________ published an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator.

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Elihu Embree

16.

Many historians believe the __________ was the beginning of the modern American women's movement.

a)

Declaration of Sentiments

b)

Stanton Movement

c)

Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Convention of Women

17.

Both ________ and __________ organized the first women's rights convention.

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

b)

Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott

c)

Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth

d)

Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

18.

The first women's convention was held in __________ to declare that women should have equal rights to men, including the right to vote.

a)

London

b)

Seneca Falls

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

New York City

19.

Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, the ______________ sought to reshape American society.

a)

Reform Era

b)

temperance movement

c)

transcendentalist movement

d)

Change movement

20.

During the ___________ in the 1820s and 1830s, religion grew in North America and by the 1850s twice as many Americans attended church than they had at the birth of the country.

a)

Second Great Awakening

b)

Reform Era

c)

First Great Awakening

d)

temperance movement