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Age of Reform - Parts 1-2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The leader in public school reform, he established teacher training programs and curriculum (school subjects) reform

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Horace Mann

2.

The call to outlaw slavery.

a)

Abolition

b)

Temperance

3.

After visiting a mental hospital, she saw the need for reform and reported her findings to the Massachusetts legislature who passed laws aimed at improving conditions.

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

4.

He was the most radical white abolitionist.

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

5.

The group who followed the teachings of Ann Lee, sharing their goods with one another, believing men and women were equal and refusing to fight for any reason.

a)

Quakers

b)

Shakers

6.

The newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison.

a)

The North Star

b)

The Liberator

7.

All Utopian Communities shared the common goal of this.

a)

Wealth

b)

Self-Sufficiency

8.

The freeing of slaves with no payment to slaveholders.

a)

Suffrage

b)

Emancipation

9.

Experimental groups who tried to create a perfect place.

a)

Utopian Communities

b)

Communes

10.

A free black, he advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

David Walker

11.

This group emphasized reason and appeals to conscience as the paths to perfection.They believed that religious conversion was a gradual process and that social reform was both important and possible.

a)

Transcendentalists

b)

Unitarians

12.

An escaped slave, became a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglas

13.

The idea that people should not obey laws they considered unjust by peacefully disobeying  those laws

a)

Anarchy

b)

Civil Disobedience

14.

The anti-slavery newspaper started by Frederick Douglas named after the star that guided runaway slaves.

a)

The Liberator

b)

The North Star

15.

A gifted preacher born into slavery believed he had been chosen to lead his people out of slavery.

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Frederick Douglas

16.

Abandoning community life, he built himself a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts where he lived alone for two years. He wrote a book about his isolation in 1854 called Walden where he advised readers to follow their inner voices.

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

Proslavery advocates used this to defend slavery, citing passages that counseled servants to obey their masters.

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Bible

18.

A New England writer he was one of the leaders of the Transcendental movement. 

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

This rule in Congress prevented abolitionists from explaining their cause and reasons for wanting Congress to end slavery.

a)

Anti-Abolitionist Rule

b)

Gag Rule

20.

A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

Naturalism

21.

In this state, blacks, free and slave, were forbidden from preaching the Gospel unless respectable slaveholders were present

a)

Alabama

b)

New York

22.

This became a political, cultural and social center for African Americans providing schools and other services that whites denied them.

a)

The Salvation Army

b)

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

23.

After being captured, what happened to Nat Turner.

a)

He escaped to Florida

b)

He was Hanged

24.

The Second Great Awakening also brought Christianity on a large scale to this group of people.

a)

Native Americans

b)

Enslaved African Americans

25.

Large gatherings, often with crowds of 20,000 or more designed to awaken religious faith through impassioned preaching and prayer.

a)

Festivals

b)

Revivals