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Social Reforms Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which reformer worked for women's rights? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
2.
Who was an education reformer? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
3.
Who was instrumental in the reform movement of the treatment of the insane? 
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Elizabeth Cady Staton
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.
Which of the following statements is true about prison reforms during the mid-1800s?
a)
Some prisoners were not criminals, but were mentally ill
b)
some prisoners were chained to the walls
c)
some prisoners were in unheated cells with little or no clothing
d)
all choices given are true
5.
I was the most famous ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad.  I led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
a)
John Brown
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
David Walker
d)
Nat Turner
6.
I helped get a law passed that allowed married women to gain ownership of the wages and property that they earned.  I also believed in “equal pay for equal work.”
a)
Carrie Nation
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sarah Grimke
d)
Susan B. Anthony
7.
I wrote a pamphlet that supported equal educational opportunities for women.
a)
Sarah Grimke
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Lucretia Mott
d)
Carrie Nation
8.
I escaped slavery and became one of America’s best speakers and writers about the horrors of slavery.  I was a personal friend to Abraham Lincoln.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Sojourner Truth
9.
I was a former slave who stood 6 feet tall and challenged the idea that women were the “weaker sex.”
a)
Victoria Woodhull
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Lucy Stone
d)
Angelina Grimke
10.
The _________ was a political organization founded by people who opposed immigrants and Catholics.
a)
Know-Nothing Party
b)
Know-Everything Party
c)
Tell-Nothing Party
d)
Tell-Everything Party
11.
Temperance was the movement to stop the use of ________ during the mid-1800s.
a)
tobacco
b)
slavery
c)
factories
d)
alcohol
12.
What religious movement led to the other reform movements?
a)
The Reformation 
b)
The Second Great Awakening
c)
The Renaissance 
d)
The First Great Awakening 
13.
Which two women led the Women’s Rights Movement?
a)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
b)
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth and Dorothea Dix
d)
Betsy Ross and Sacajawea
14.
Define Reform
a)
to make change to something in order to improve it 
b)
first co-ed college
c)
the time period directly after a major war
d)
the right to vote
15.
Sojourner Truth was a abolitionist and a women's rights leader.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who:
a)
Complained about his new life in the North.
b)
Went into hiding in New York.
c)
Created a platform about returning to Africa.
d)
Spoke up about his experiences as a slave while living in the North.
17.
Abolitionists were Americans who wanted to end
a)
Slavery
b)
discrimination against women
c)
immigration
d)
imprisonment for debt
18.

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.”

a)

Elizabeth Blackwell

b)

Dorothea Dix

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Horace Mann

19.

Which of these was the model for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

U.S. Constitution

20.

The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was significant because it

a)

Forced the government to discuss petitions against slavery.

b)

Marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.

c)

Granted women the right to participate in the voting process.

d)

Revealed the need for temperance and educational reforms.

21.

What was an Abolitionist?

a)

A person who is able to move to America

b)

A person who wanted to abolish our government

c)

A person who wanted to abolish slavery

d)

A social program to help immigrants in the 1800s

22.
The people who helped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad were called_____________.
a)
conductors
b)
engineers
23.
Was the Underground Railroad really underground?
a)
yes
b)
no
24.
What was the Underground Railroad?
a)
Railroad tracks that ran East and West
b)
Secret routes that runaway slaves used to reach freedom
c)
An underground tunnel that ran to Canada
d)
A rode that returned escaped slaves to the south
25.

Which term describes U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them?

a)

Native Americans

b)

Naturalized Citizens

c)

Nativists

26.

What were the poorly built and overcrowded houses where immigrants called?

a)

apartment complex

b)

tenements

c)

lots

d)

townships

27.

What was the social reform effort that promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background called?

a)

common education movement

b)

common curriculum movement

c)

common school movement

d)

common place movement

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