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Age of Reform

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

New Harmony, Indiana was an example of a

a)

revival

b)

frontier camp

c)

utopia

d)

college

2.

Who was the leader of education who lengthened the school year to six months?

a)

Lyman Beecher

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Charles Finney

d)

Dorothea Dix

3.

The first college for African American was

a)

Holy Cross

b)

Mount Holyoke

c)

Oberlin College

d)

Ashmun Institute

4.

Writers Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were

a)

enslaved people

b)

utopians

c)

revivalists

d)

Transcendentalists

5.

Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

a)

Washington Irving

b)

Herman Melville

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Charles Finney

6.

The first white abolitionsist to call for "immediate and complete emancipation" of enslaved people was

a)

Benjamin Lundy

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

David Walker

d)

Frederick Douglas

7.

What was the name of the former enslaved African American who had never been taught to read or write, but spoke with wit and wisdom?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Dorothea Dix

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Sarah Grimke

8.

Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own bondage and formed the

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Education movement

c)

suffrage movement

d)

women's rights movement

9.

The first women's rights convention was held in

a)

Georgia

b)

New York

c)

Virginia

d)

Ohio

10.

In the 1800s, there was a wave of religious fervor known as the

a)

religious rights

b)

first great awakening

c)

second great awakening

d)

religious awakening

11.

What movement called for drinking little or no alcohol?

a)

Transcendentalist

b)

Utopia Communitites

c)

temperance

d)

reformers

12.

who became head of education in Massachusetts in 1837

a)

Lyman Beecher

b)

Horace Mann

c)

George Carlin

d)

Charles Finney

13.

Who wrote the book Moby Dick?

a)

Herman Melville

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Maria Mitchell

d)

Theodore Weld

14.

Who wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Herman Melville

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Maria Mitchell

15.

Who purchased his freedom from the slaveholder he had fled?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Charles T. Weber

d)

Theodore Weld

16.

The network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people was the

a)

Middle Passage

b)

Northwest Passage

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Lincoln Highway

17.

Who was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Angelina Grimke

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Sarah Grimke

18.

The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention concerned

a)

education

b)

suffrage

c)

jobs

d)

slavery

19.

Who founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children?

a)

Theodore Weld

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Elizabeth Blackwell

20.

Who believed in civil disobedience against laws that they believe are wrong

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Dorothea Dix

21.

Who wrote the poem "Hope"

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Margaret Fuller

d)

Louisa May Alcott

22.

The Second Great Awakening happened during.

a)

late 1820's or early 1830's

b)

late 1830's or early 1840's

c)

mid 1850's

d)

late 1850's or early 1860's

23.

The famous spiritual "Follow the Drinking Gourd" is talking about what?

a)

the famous station on the Underground Railroad

b)

a hollowed out gourd used for drinking in the south

c)

a kind of squash that is delicious and very nutritious

d)

the Big Dipper constellation that points north to freedom

24.

Which religious organization helped women's rights, many reformers belonged to this religion.

a)

Puritan

b)

Mormon

c)

Great Awakening

d)

Quaker

25.

The Underground Railroad routes ran in what directions?

a)

north

b)

South

c)

west

d)

East

26.

The American Colonization Society sent free slave to what country in Western Africa?

a)

Libya

b)

Liberia

c)

Lebanon

d)

Loas

27.

What is the capital of Liberia in which free slaves were sent?

a)

Athens

b)

Algeria

c)

Venice

d)

Monrovia

28.

What are frontier camp meeting called?

a)

revivals

b)

Great Awakening

c)

Labor meetings

d)

churches

29.

Who reformed care for mentally ill

a)

Maria Mitchell

b)

Lucretia Mott

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Hellen Keller

30.

Where was the freedom country for free slaves sent.

a)

Liberia

b)

Libya

c)

Syria

d)

Jordan

31.

Who was the editor of the newspaper "North Star"

a)

Benjamin Lundy

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Sam Cornish

32.

Name the pathway to the north to freedom?

a)

Underground road

b)

Lincoln Highway

c)

Northwest Passage

d)

Underground Railroad

33.

Who was the artist who painted birds?

a)

Elijah Lovejoy

b)

John James Audubon

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

34.

Who practiced civil disobedience.

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

John James Audubon

d)

Sam Cornish

35.

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Maria Mitchell

d)

Louisa May Alcott

36.

Who was the leading voice of the women's rights movement?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Elizabeth Blackwell

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

37.

What woman discovered a comet?

a)

Maria Mitchell

b)

Elizabeth Blackwell

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Dorothea Dix

38.

The first college in the United States to admit women and African Americans was what?

a)

Lincoln College

b)

Oberlin College

c)

Harvard University

d)

Holyoke College

39.

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm were the editors of what African American newspaper?

a)

North Star

b)

Freedom's Journal

c)

Liberator

d)

Scarlet Newspaper

40.

Women who fought for women's rights were called?

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Feminists

c)

Anthony's warriors

d)

Stanton's warriors

41.

Who developed a school for the deaf?

a)

Thomas Gallaudet

b)

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe

c)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d)

Henry David Thoreau

42.

Who came up with braille for the blind?

a)

Thomas Gallaudet

b)

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe

c)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d)

Henry David Thoreau

43.

Who wrote the Scarlet Letter?

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

44.

Who wrote the poem about "Paul Revere".

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

Edgar Allen Poe

45.

who wrote the book "Little Women"

a)

Margaret Fuller

b)

Louisa May Alcott

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Susan B. Anthony

46.

Who was the author of poetry that dealt with death.

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c)

Washington Irving

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

47.

What inventor came up with morse code?

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

John Deere

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

Peter Cooper

48.

Who mailed himself to freedom by getting in a box?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Henry Brown

d)

Thomas Glazer

49.

Who was an editor of an abolitionist newspaper in Illiinois who was shot and killed trying to save his newspaper press?

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Elijah Lovejoy

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Samuel Cornish

50.

What territory gave women the right to vote first so they could become a state?

a)

Washington

b)

Wyoming

c)

Wisconsin

d)

Montana