WorksheetsReform Movements
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This image shows a replica of the cabin Henry David Thoreau built at Walden Pond. Thoreau is known for a book he wrote about
building cabins.
living close to nature.
an ideal community.
Charles Finney.
Thoreau was a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists believed that people should
question society's rules.
conform to others' expectations.
live alone to find God.
attend religious meetings.
The Second Great Awakening inspired many people to
oppose the Mexican-American War.
support prison reform.
oppose model communities.
oppose slavery.
Who was the central figure in the transcendentalist movement?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Ripley
Charles Finney
Sojourner Truth
For about how many years did Dorothea Dix investigate conditions in prisons and almshouses?
about three years
about two years
about four years
about ten years
In the jails and asylums near Boston, Dix found mentally ill and insane persons
receiving no care or treatment for their conditions
living in cages and bound in chains
living in prisons
all of the above
What did Dix believe is the only way to remedy, or correct, "the evils to which I refer, and which I shall proceed more fully to illustrate"?
better training for the prison wardens who house the mentally ill
punishment for the prison wardens who house the mentally ill
legislation to create public facilities for the mentally ill
forcing families to care for mentally ill relatives at home
What did Dix believe is the only way to remedy, or correct, "the evils to which I refer, and which I shall proceed more fully to illustrate"?
the state of Massachusetts
prison wardens
citizens of Massachusetts
criminals
According to the Common School Journal, who or what is responsible educating the people?
individual citizens
private schools
the government
churches
According to the Common School Journal in 1852 what was the state of public education for that year?
All states had public schools.
Some states had public schools.
Each state had one public school.
No states had public schools.
Which opinion is that of Horace Mann?
Only wealthy children have a right to an education.
Every child has an equal right to an education.
Only children in certain states have a right to an education.
The government is doing a good job providing public education.
A goal of educational reformers was a free public education for
everyone.
whites only.
boys only.
white boys only.
According to Douglass, how did the influence of slavery change his mistress?
She went against her husband's wishes and taught Douglass to read.
She convinced her husband that slaves should learn to read.
She changed her treatment of slaves from kindness to cruelty.
She became an abolitionist.
Douglass learned to read through lessons with
his mistress.
white boys in the street.
abolitionists.
educated slaves.
What does Douglass mean when he says "bread of knowledge"?
a dictionary
food
freedom
education
How old was Douglass when he learned about the movement to abolish slavery?
about 12 years old
about 7 years old
about 20 years old
about 15 years old
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in New York. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
the first anti-slavery convention in world's history
a convention to nominate Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president
the first women's rights convention in world's history
a convention to form a political party for women
Who made a resolution that women should have the right to vote?
Frederick Douglass
Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Seneca Falls Convention wrote a proposal for women's rights. On which document was it modeled?
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
What was an immediate outcome of the Seneca Falls Convention?
It led to an amendment giving women the right to vote.
It helped create an equal rights amendment.
It led to the election of the first woman in Congress.
It helped create an organized movement for women's rights.
