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Social Expansion 19th Century America

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Susan B. Anthony?

a)

a person who refused to give up her seat on a bus

b)

a person who helped slaves on the Underground Railroad

c)

a woman who led the fight for women's rights

d)

a women who worked as a waitress

2.

Which event happened first?

a)

Black men got the right to vote

b)

Women got the right to vote

3.

What does the word suffrage mean?

a)

the right to vote

b)

the right to drive a car

c)

the right to be free

d)

the right to have an education

4.

Abolitionists thought slavery was _____________________ wrong.

a)

morally

b)

really

c)

mentally

d)

physically

5.
Who wrote the Liberator and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
6.
Who wrote the North Star and worked for rights to better the lives of African Americans and women?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7.
Who played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. 
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8.

How was Dorothea Dix able to get the legislature to approve her proposals?

a)

She went to court

b)

She organized protests

c)

She provided data from jails she visited

d)

She presented a testimonial before the legislature

9.

What idea from the Second Great Awakening had the greatest impact on Dorothea Dix’s reforms?

a)

The idea that people could only achieve salvation through God’s grace.

b)

The idea of predestination in which people’s actions did not affect their chances of achieving salvation.

c)

The idea that the mentally ill were favored with regards to achieving salvation.

d)

The evangelical movement that emphasized that people could improve their situation and ultimately obtain salvation.

10.

According to the map from Doc. a, where did Harriet travel to FIRST while working as a conductor on the Underground Railroad?

a)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

b)

Phoenix, Arizona

c)

Washington DC

d)

New York, New York

11.

According to Doc. B, why would Harriet Tubman return to the South?

a)

to save other slaves

b)

to find animals

c)

to find her owners

d)

to fight in the Civil War

12.

Because of Harriet Tubman's legend of freeing slaves and assisting other to freedom she was known as

a)

St. Catherine

b)

Moses

c)

Araminta Ross

d)

Egypt

13.

What did Horace Mann do to change education?

a)

started free public education in Massachusetts

b)

wrote four lined poems on Transcendentalism

c)

believed that teacher training schools were needed

d)

educate the public about mental illness

14.

Who was Thomas Gallaudet?

a)

teacher for hearing impaired

b)

teacher for the blind

c)

teacher for mental ill persons

d)

started civil disobedience

15.

What was civil disobedience?

a)

part of the Transcendentalist movement

b)

part of literary movement by Henry David Thoreau

c)

idea that if a law is unjust you should refuse to obey

d)

all of these are correct