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WorksheetsAge of Reform Wayground
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Second (a) Awakening led many Americans to help others and led to many (b) movements to (c) society.
Match each reform movement to its goal (or problem in society it sought to fix).
reduce alcohol consumption
all children should have a basic education
fair pay and reasonable working hours
they should not be kept in prisons
What was the goal of the abolitionist reform movement? Answer in a complete sentence.
"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...
was a great military leader in the Civil War
taught reading to wealthy children in the South
fought in a brave naval battle against the British
secretly led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
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?
The CAUSE of the women's rights movement
The RESULT of the women's rights movement
The injustices of slavery
The unfair working conditions in factories
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.
TRUE
FALSE
"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?
Women are oppressing men
Men are oppressing women
the British are oppressing the colonists
France is oppressing the Americans
Which of the following words is the best synonym for the word reform?
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alter
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