WorksheetsThe 1800s Reform Movements
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 14mins
Who is often called the mother of the women's suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
What was the main goal of the abolitionist movement?
To promote women's rights
To end racial segregation
To abolish slavery
To reform the prison system
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was significant for which reform movement?
Women's suffrage movement
Abolitionist movement
Prison reform movement
Education reform movement
Who was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
John Brown
What was the purpose of the prison reform movement?
To segregate prisoners by gender
To provide better living conditions for prisoners
To increase the number of prisons
To abolish the prison system entirely
Which reformer is known for her work in the prison reform movement and also the mental health reform?
Clara Barton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Fry
What was the name of the newspaper published by Frederick Douglass?
The Liberator
The North Star
The Freedom's Journal
The Emancipator
Horace Mann is best known for his contributions to which reform movement?
Women's suffrage movement
Abolitionist movement
Prison reform movement
Education reform movement
What was one of the main demands of the Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence?
The right to bear arms
The right to freedom of speech
The right for women to vote
The right to public education
To make changes in order to bring out improvements
Reform
Abolitionist
Transcendentalism
Declaration of Sentiments
A person who supports getting rid of slavery
Reform
Abolitionist
Transcendentalism
Declaration of Sentiments
Gathering of supporters to argue for Women's Rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Second Great Awakening
Underground Railroad
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Secret Network of free blacks and whites who helped slaves escape North
Seneca Falls Convention
Second Great Awakening
Underground Railroad
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Unequal treatment based on who a person is
Discrimination
Oppression
Racism
Segregation
Belief that one ethnicity is better than another
Discrimination
Oppression
Racism
Segregation
Separation of groups based on ethnicity
Discrimination
Oppression
Racism
Segregation
What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?
Citizen
Property
Dependents
Immigrants
According to Horace Mann, which of these were reasons that better schools were needed? (Mark ALL that Apply)
Children were roaming the streets committing crimes
Rural children might attend school for only a part of the year
Education was seen as a way to escape poverty.
There needed to be a way to separate the best and brightest from the rest of the people.
Which of these was NOT a reform introduced by Dorothea Dix to help the mentally ill?
Mentally ill people were no longer housed in cages or chains.
Branding people with hot irons was made illegal
Child services were introduced to help children "in trouble."
The Government provided free mental healthcare to all citizens who needed it.
Prominent ex-slave Abolitionist who spoke out about and described the harsh treatment of slaves first-hand
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Leaders of the Seneca Fall's Convention
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, the ______________ sought to reshape American society.
Reform Era
temperance movement
transcendentalist movement
Change movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony worked to...
Secure a coin in their honor
Free slaves
Secure the right for women to vote
Secure rights for farmers
This movement first shaped Susan B. Anthony's desire to fight for equal rights...
Worker's Rights Movement
Abolition Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Peace Movement
This is a photo of Harriet Tubman. Which one of the following is her BEST known accomplishment?
American Indian Suffrage
Harlem Renaissance
African American Suffrage
Underground Railroad
Document written at the Seneca Falls Convention that declares "All men and women are created equal"
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Sentiments
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Suffragists believed that women were denied of
The right to go to the market
The right to purchase food
Everything
Basic rights
This person wanted to reform education for poor children.
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Billie Elish
The reform efforts of Dorothea Dix during the mid-nineteenth century led to -
improved education for immigrant children
the creation of worker safety regulations
the expansion of suffrage for women
improved facilities for the mentally ill and disabled
This leader inspired followers of the abolitionist movement by-
writing Uncle Tom's Cabin
publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star
organizing the Underground Railroad
becoming the first African American senator
What group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?
American Indians, because they view the plight of slaves as similar to their own
Quakers, because slavery contradicted their religious beliefs
British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade
Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery
What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?
Churches turned away from public politics and focused on religious issues
People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems
Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women
Politicians were encouraged to promote states rights rather than federal unity
