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Ch 8- Reforming American Society

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name of the religious reform that emphasized the individual's choice in salvation.

a)

Second Great Awakening

b)

Women's Rights Movement

c)

Transcendentalism

d)

Education reform

2.

Preachers held outdoor meetings for their sermons called ...

a)

Revivals

b)

Reforms

c)

Camp meetings

d)

Service

3.

What was the name of the secular and literary movement that focused on the truth found in nature?

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

Second Great Awakening

c)

Abolitionism

d)

Women's Rights Movement

4.

Which 2 people were influential transcendentalist writers?

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

b)

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

c)

Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth

d)

Horace Mann and Dorothea Dix

5.

Who was the father of the modern education system?

a)

Horace Mann

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

David Walker

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

6.

Radical, white abolitionist that called for immediate emancipation in his newspaper, The Liberator.

a)

David Walker

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

James Fenimore Cooper

7.

Black abolitionist that sought political change and edited The North Star newspaper.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

David Walker

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Nat Turner

8.

Led a slave revolt that killed 60 white people.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

David Walker

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Nat Turner

9.

What were the laws created to limit the rights of both freed and enslaved African Americans alike?

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

slave codes

c)

emancipation proclamation

d)

13th Amendment

10.

Movement that wanted to prohibit the drinking of alcohol.

a)

Temperance movement

b)

Prison reform

c)

Women's Rights movement

d)

Abolitionism

11.

Tradition that housework and child care were considered the only proper activities for married women.

a)

Women's Rights movement

b)

cult of domesticity

c)

Transcendentalism

d)

revivalism

12.

Abolitionist that gave the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Elizabeth Blackwell

d)

Lucretia Mott

13.

Which term means "to change for the better?"

a)

revival

b)

reform

c)

emancipation

d)

revolt

14.

The myth of the happy slave compared Southern slaves' lives to that of...

a)

Northern wage workers

b)

Southern wage workers

c)

Western slaves

d)

Northern slaves

15.

Limiting or preventing the debate of an issue, mostly used against abolition.

a)

reform

b)

slave codes

c)

gag rule

d)

revival

16.

Women during this time period usually earned _______ wages than men.

a)

lower

b)

the same

c)

higher

17.

Largest group of European immigrants that faced severe persecution for being Catholic.

a)

Germans

b)

Mexicans

c)

British

d)

Irish

18.

To fight for higher wages and shorter work hours, workers will form...

a)

Revival groups

b)

Trade unions

c)

Utopian societies

d)

Political groups

19.

What is the call to end slavery?

a)

Revivalism

b)

Abolition

c)

Reform

d)

Systematic

20.

Life for slaves in the cities was _____ than that of slaves on plantations.

a)

better

b)

worse