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Age of Reform Wayground

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Second​ (a)   Awakening led many Americans to​ help others and led to many​ (b)   movements to​ (c)   society.

Choose from the below words
Great
reform
improve
disrupt
Religious
impair
2.

Match each reform movement to its goal (or problem in society it sought to fix).

Categorize the following

reduce alcohol consumption

all children should have a basic education

fair pay and reasonable working hours

they should not be kept in prisons

Temperance
Education
Labor
Mentally Ill/Disabled
3.

What was the goal of the abolitionist reform movement? Answer in a complete sentence.

4 lines
4.

"The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism." This quote from Frederick Douglass is most likely describing someone who...

a)

was a great military leader in the Civil War

b)

taught reading to wealthy children in the South

c)

fought in a brave naval battle against the British

d)

secretly led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

5.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton used to beg her father, a judge, to protect women from abusive husbands, her father would only say, “there was no law against it.”  Both women agreed something had to be done about the injustices suffered by women.

What is this quote describing?

a)

The CAUSE of the women's rights movement

b)

The RESULT of the women's rights movement

c)

The injustices of slavery

d)

The unfair working conditions in factories

6.

True or False? The 19th Amendment, which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote, is proof that the women's rights movement was successful.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.”

In this quote from the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, accuses who of oppressing who?

a)

Women are oppressing men

b)

Men are oppressing women

c)

the British are oppressing the colonists

d)

France is oppressing the Americans

8.

Which of the following words is the best synonym for the word reform?

a)

edit

b)

alter

c)

improve

d)

patch