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Reform & Culture

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who would likely have attended the Seneca Falls Convention?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

All of the above

2.

This artist drew life-size portrait of birds —

a)

James John Audubon

b)

Angelica Grimke

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.

They drew natural landscapes and scenery —

a)

Mormon High School

b)

Tabernacle Choir

c)

Hudson River School

d)

Leonardo Da Vinci

4.

Which immigrant group would you likely associate with kindergarten, polka music, and sausage production?

a)

Chinese

b)

German

c)

Polish

d)

African

5.

Escaped slavery and became an abolitionist in Massachusetts —

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

John Locke

d)

Abigail Adams

6.

The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that led to —

a)

Civil War

b)

Immigration

c)

Declaration of Sentiments

d)

Social reforms

7.

A transcendalist who coined the term "civil disobedience" —

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Julia Ward Howe

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Emily Dickerson

8.

This social reform movement sought to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol —

a)

Temperance

b)

Abolition

c)

Workers' rights

d)

Women's rights

9.

Why did the Chinese emigrate to the United States in the mid-1800s?

a)

Plantation agriculture

b)

Whaling in Boston

c)

Economic boom in the west

d)

Work as slaves in the South

10.

Horace Mann advocated for which social reform?

a)

Temperance

b)

Education

c)

Women's rights

d)

Farming

11.

What was push factor for many Irish immigrants to the U.S. in the mid-1800s?

a)

Gasoline

b)

Tobacco

c)

Potato famine

d)

Popeyes Chicken Sandwich

12.

How did African Americans contribute to our national identity?

a)

Worked in cotton fields and new forms of music

b)

Founded the fishery industry

c)

Raised white whales in Boston harbor

d)

Rocked Chinese foods

13.

After the Seneca Falls Convention, attendees released a document known as —

a)

Declaration of Truths

b)

Constitution

c)

Declaration of Sentiments

d)

The Magna Carta

14.

What is urbanization?

a)

The growth of cities

b)

Making of the Charleston harbor

c)

Subsistence farming

d)

Building a new school

15.

Poor hygiene in urban areas would be a result of —

a)

Inflation

b)

Abolition

c)

Overpopulation

d)

Resentment

16.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter was written about Puritans in —

a)

Southern Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

New England Colonies

d)

Africa diaspora

17.

She advocated for the mentally ill and prison reform —

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Frederick Douglass

18.

This movement advocated for better pay and working condition in factories —

a)

Women's rights

b)

Enslaved movement

c)

Workers' rights

d)

Temperance movement

19.

The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the . . . most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. . . . While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Which statement shows how this excerpt is an example of transcendentalism in the early-to-mid 1800s?

a)

Thoreau uses reason to explain natural events that happen in the world.

b)

Thoreau focuses on the role of science in changing the natural world.

c)

Thoreau studies the relationship between nature and historical events.

d)

Thoreau focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world.

20.

Immigrants settled in the Midwest to establish —

a)

Junior High Schools

b)

NASA

c)

Bachata class

d)

Small farms

21.

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison are most closely associated with what reform movement?

a)

Abolitionist Movement

b)

Women's Rights Movement

c)

Temperance Movement

d)

Education Movement

22.

Which was NOT a major reform movement in the 1800s?

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Immigration

c)

Women's Rights

d)

Care for the mentally-ill and prisons

23.

Which of the following is true of the Second Great Awakening?

a)

It led to the growth of non-Christian religions in the U.S.

b)

It was a Catholic religious revival in the United States

c)

The new religious movement of Reform Judaism emerged during this period

d)

It encouraged a variety of reform movements

24.

The Temperance Movement eventually led to the ____ or ban on alcohol in the United States.

a)

Demarcation

b)

Prohibition

c)

Autocracy

d)

Retrenchment

25.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the women's rights movement?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Sojourner Truth