WorksheetsAmerican Reformers Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What did the reformers of the 1830s and 1840s hope to win?
a) better lives for Americans
b) a presidential election
c) more land for the United States
d) freedom of religion
Which behavior did the temperance movement focus on?
a) gambling
b) shopping
c) drinking
d) cursing
Who marched in the Cold Water Army?
a) abolitionists
b) soldiers
c) former slaves
d) children
In American jails, reformer Dorothea Dix was surprised to find
a) women prisoners.
b) criminals.
c) people with mental illnesses.
d) children.
Which statement expressed most people’s feelings about those with mental health problems during the early 1800s?
a) “Get them out of sight.”
b) “They deserve kind treatment.”
c) “They can be made well.”
d) “They need their own special hospitals.”
Which person is most likely to need an advocate, someone to speak for him or her?
a) a well-paid worker
b) a person with a mental illness
c) the owner of a farm
d) the father of a large family
In order to obtain reforms for people with these illnesses, Dorothea Dix had to get the attention of
a) people with mental illnesses.
b) lawmakers.
c) the people in charge of jails.
d) hospital workers.
What did Dorothea Dix want for people with mental health problems?
a) separate jails
b) better almshouses
c) special hospitals
d) freedom
Which was a problem in free public schools during the early 1800s?
a) short school “year”
b) poorly trained teachers
c) run-down and unheated school buildings
d) all of the above
Which reformer led the movement to provide free public school education for all?
a) Horace Mann
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) Frederick Douglass
d) Lucretia Mott
Why did business people support free public education?
a) to get well-trained workers
b) to attend school themselves
c) to have smart customers
d) to pay taxes
Which state became the model for school reform?
a) Delaware
b) Georgia
c) New York
d) Massachusetts
Which reform movement of the early 1800s tried to persuade people to drink little or no alcohol?
a) temperance
b) women’s rights
c) abolitionism
d) mental health care
In the 1800s, most enslaved workers lived in
a) large cities
b) Northern states
c) Southern states
d) small towns
An important abolitionist was
a) George Washington.
b) Horace Mann.
c) William Lloyd Garrison.
d) Dorothea Dix.
Which two reformers were once enslaved workers?
a) Dorothea Dix and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Angelina and Sarah Grimké
c) Lucretia and James Mott
d) Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass
What famous document was used as a model by people who worked for women’s rights?
a) the Declaration of Independence
b) the Bill of Rights
c) the Magna Carta
d) the Emancipation Proclamation
Lucretia Mott first tried to convince Elizabeth Cady Stanton to go slowly in her fight to win women’s right to
a) attend college.
b) own property.
c) vote.
d) hold meetings.
Where were women welcome to listen and learn but not to speak?
a) at temperance and abolitionist meetings
b) on plantations
c) in schools
d) in almshouses
In the 1800s, reformers worked to improve the lives of Americans because they believed that in America a better life was
a) hard.
b) possible.
c) impossible.
d) guaranteed.
the practice of drinking little or no alcohol
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temperance
abolish
convention
to end, to stop something completely
convention
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abolish
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a hospital for people with mental illnesses
asylum
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golden rule
equal rights
a formal gathering of people for a purpose
state legislature
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convention
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a teacher who teaches only one student, usually in the student’s home
conscience
golden rule
equal rights
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the part of state government responsible for making laws for the state
equal rights
state legislature
golden rule
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a promise
pledge
equal rights
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convention
the freedoms and legal protections guaranteed to all citizens
golden rule
conscience
pledge
equal rights
a sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong
conscience
golden rule
equal rights
a rule or belief in many religions that encourages people to treat others as you want to be treated
equal rights
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golden rule
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