WorksheetsReform Movement
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins
Who was the American abolitionist and writer who escaped slavery, published his biography and founded the abolitionist paper, the North Star?
Henry Clay
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
Fredrick Douglas
What religious movement was a contributing factor in the emergence of reform movements in the 1800s?
The Reformation
The Second Great Awakening
The Renaissance
The First Great Awakening
In the 1840s, a meeting took place at Seneca Falls, New York, that made an important contribution to American society. What was the focus of that meeting?
women’s rights
state’s rights
prison reforms
start of labor unions
To restrain ones self from engaging or participating in something.
Reform
Abolition
Temperance
Abstinence
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
Select two ways the author develops the central idea about the changes in worker safety that occurred as a result of the fire similarly to how he develops the central idea of the tragedy of the fire itself? (R.2.2)
The author includes essential facts.
The author explains the process taken.
The author provides first person accounts.
The author provides detailed lists of the effects.
The author describes the conversations key people had.
What were some of the dangers child workers faced in factories?
All of the above
Getting caught in machines
Fumes making them sick
Long working hours
What was the Progressive Movement formed to combat?
Monopolies
Political corruption
Unsanitary food processing plants
Child labor
Overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and workers needed in cities were caused by
The Second Industrial Revolution
Westward Expansion
The Civil War
The 19th Amendment
Which vocabulary term is defined as:
favoring or advocating for change and political improvements?
intrusive
prohibitive
conservative
progressive
Which vocabulary term is defined as:
moderation or restraint, especially with regard to alcoholic drinks.
bootlegging
temperance
smuggling
ratification
Complete the definition:
Minimum Wage - the _____ hourly amount an employer may legally pay an employee.
lowest
highest
original
replacement
Complete the definition:
Suffrage: the right to _____.
educational opportunities
free speech
vote
own property
Which vocabulary term is defined as:
to formally forbid a person or group from doing something.
petition
ratify
prohibit
encourage
Choose the correct definition of reform.
to make something better by changing it, often in such a way as to right past wrongs.
to make something worse by changing it, often in such a way as to cause wrongs.
to get rid of something, often because it cannot be fixed.
to start something new, often as a way of separating from something else.
Which phrase correctly defines "suffrage"?
the right to vote
the right to own property
the right to education
the right to work
A secondary goal of the suffrage movement was to improve women's rights. Which right did suffragists work to help gain and protect for women?
the right to own enslaved people
the right to get an education
A secondary goal of the suffrage movement was to improve women's rights. Which right did suffragists work to help gain and protect for women?
the right to enlist in the military
the right to equal opportunities in business
Which claim is supported by the following:
"He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice..."
(excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments)
women should have the right to own property
women should have the right to vote
women should have the right to work
women should be paid the same wages as men
What movement am I?
Regulate railroads
Regulate business
Government Reform
Progressive Movement
Agrarian Reform
Populist Party
What movement am I?
Voting Reform
Populist Party
Labor/Workforce Reform
Government Reform
What movement am I?
Right for women to vote
19th Amendment passed in 1919
Progressive Movement
Voting Reform
Government Reform
Agrarian Reform
What movement am I?
Voting Reform
Government Reform
Agrarian Reform
Populist Party
What movement am I?
Progressive Movement
Populist Party
Government Reform
Labor/Workface Reform
What movement am I?
Voting Reform
Populist Party
Progressive Movement
Government Reform
What movement am I?
Women and Children
Voting Reform
Labor/Workforce
Populist Party
Government Reform
What movement am I?
William P. Hobby
Progressive Movement
Voting Reform
Populist Party
Agrarian Reform
What movement am I?
Better wages
Better working conditions
Less hours
Labor/Workforce Reform
Voting Reform
Government Reform
Populist Party
A social movement against the consumption of alcohol.
Reform
Abolition
Temprence
2nd Great Awakening
Women were paid ______ than men
More
less
the same
who knows?
Religious Group that began the abolition movement
Catholics
Baptists
Mormons
Quakers
Who was the leader of the Education Reform Movement?
Hoarce Mann
Sam Houston
William B Travis
Will Smith
What was an abolitionist?
A person who supported the continuation of slavery
A person who advocated for the immediate end of slavery
A person who fought for women’s voting rights
A person who promoted public education
The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
Civil Disobedience
Temperance
Second Great Awakening
Prohibition
An organized effort on the part of workers to improve working conditions and pay through Labor Unions
Abolitionist
Labor Reform
Transcendentalism
2nd Great Awakening
Dorthea Dix inspired mental health reform in the following ways.
Sent more of the mentally ill to prisons
reformed prisons and asylums
encouraged the government to establish mental hospitals
What are two other beliefs of Suffragists?
Women were denied equal opportunity in businesses
Women were limited in their right to own property
Women were not able to get married
Women were already equal and needed no more rights
