WorksheetsCh 8- Reforming American Society
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name of the religious reform that emphasized the individual's choice in salvation.
Second Great Awakening
Women's Rights Movement
Transcendentalism
Education reform
Preachers held outdoor meetings for their sermons called ...
Revivals
Reforms
Camp meetings
Service
What was the name of the secular and literary movement that focused on the truth found in nature?
Transcendentalism
Second Great Awakening
Abolitionism
Women's Rights Movement
Which 2 people were influential transcendentalist writers?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
Horace Mann and Dorothea Dix
Who was the father of the modern education system?
Horace Mann
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Edgar Allan Poe
Radical, white abolitionist that called for immediate emancipation in his newspaper, The Liberator.
David Walker
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
James Fenimore Cooper
Black abolitionist that sought political change and edited The North Star newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
Led a slave revolt that killed 60 white people.
Frederick Douglass
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
What were the laws created to limit the rights of both freed and enslaved African Americans alike?
Jim Crow laws
slave codes
emancipation proclamation
13th Amendment
Movement that wanted to prohibit the drinking of alcohol.
Temperance movement
Prison reform
Women's Rights movement
Abolitionism
Tradition that housework and child care were considered the only proper activities for married women.
Women's Rights movement
cult of domesticity
Transcendentalism
revivalism
Abolitionist that gave the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
Lucretia Mott
Which term means "to change for the better?"
revival
reform
emancipation
revolt
The myth of the happy slave compared Southern slaves' lives to that of...
Northern wage workers
Southern wage workers
Western slaves
Northern slaves
Limiting or preventing the debate of an issue, mostly used against abolition.
reform
slave codes
gag rule
revival
Women during this time period usually earned _______ wages than men.
lower
the same
higher
Largest group of European immigrants that faced severe persecution for being Catholic.
Germans
Mexicans
British
Irish
To fight for higher wages and shorter work hours, workers will form...
Revival groups
Trade unions
Utopian societies
Political groups
What is the call to end slavery?
Revivalism
Abolition
Reform
Systematic
Life for slaves in the cities was _____ than that of slaves on plantations.
better
worse
