Religion and Reform
What were religious meetings called during the Second Great Awakening?
A. Utopias
B. Revivals
C. Petitions
D. Conventions
B. Revivals
What movement focused on conscience, nature, fairness, and doing what is right?
A. Colonization
B. Abolitionism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Temperance
C. Transcendentalism
What were abolitionists trying to end?
A. Immigration
B. Public schools
C. Voting rights
D. Slavery
D. Slavery
What was the Underground Railroad?
A. A factory transport system
B. A women’s education group
C. A secret escape network
D. A temperance organization
C. A secret escape network
Where was the first women’s rights convention held in 1848?
A. Boston, Massachusetts
B. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
C. Seneca Falls, New York
D. Richmond, Virginia
C. Seneca Falls, New York
Which reformer supported women’s suffrage, equal pay, college education, and coeducation?
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Maria Mitchell
C. Catherine Beecher
D. Mary Lyon
A. Susan B. Anthony
How did revival meetings help lead to reform movements in the early 1800s?
A. They replaced public schools.
B. They helped factories grow.
C. They encouraged westward travel.
D. They inspired people to improve society.
D. They inspired people to improve society.
Which writer practiced civil disobedience by refusing to pay a tax that supported the Mexican War?
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Walt Whitman
C. Margaret Fuller
D. Emily Dickinson
A. Henry David Thoreau
Why did the abolition movement become a major reform issue by around 1830?
A. Liberia joined the United States.
B. The South ended slave labor.
C. More Americans saw slavery as wrong.
D. Slavery ended in every state.
C. More Americans saw slavery as wrong.
Who became the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad?
A. Sojourner Truth
B. Harriet Tubman
C. Sarah Grimké
D. Elizabeth Blackwell
B. Harriet Tubman
Why is the Seneca Falls Convention considered important?
A. It began a national women’s rights movement.
B. It ended slavery in the South.
C. It founded the first normal school.
D. It created the Hudson River School.
A. It began a national women’s rights movement.
What does coeducation mean?
A. Women owning property
B. Men teaching only boys
C. Adults attending college
D. Males and females learning together
D. Males and females learning together
What was a utopia?
A. A reform newspaper
B. A teacher-training school
C. A perfect-society community
D. A women’s rights meeting
C. A perfect-society community
What does civil disobedience mean?
A. Starting a reform school
B. Joining a perfect community
C. Holding a public convention
D. Refusing laws seen as unjust
D. Refusing laws seen as unjust
What made William Lloyd Garrison an important abolitionist?
A. He founded Mount Holyoke.
B. He published The Liberator.
C. He discovered a comet.
D. He created a normal school.
B. He published The Liberator.
Why was Frederick Douglass such a powerful abolitionist?
A. He escaped slavery and spoke out.
B. He helped start the Mormons.
C. He founded a normal school.
D. He led a painters’ group.
A. He escaped slavery and spoke out.
What does suffrage mean?
A. The right to teach
B. The right to vote
C. The right to publish
D. The right to protest
B. The right to vote
Which woman broke a barrier for women in medicine?
A. Emma Willard
B. Elizabeth Blackwell
C. Margaret Fuller
D. Lucretia Mott
B. Elizabeth Blackwell
What was one major goal of the temperance movement?
A. To reduce alcohol use
B. To expand voting rights
C. To improve railroads
D. To create new colleges
A. To reduce alcohol use
Which group of painters showed American landscapes, especially scenes of New York’s Hudson River valley?
A. Anti-Slavery Society
B. Hudson River School
C. Seneca Falls Group
D. Colonization Society
B. Hudson River School
Why did the American Colonization Society fail to stop the growth of slavery?
A. It supported women’s suffrage.
B. It worked only in the North.
C. It was led by factory owners.
D. It helped too few people leave.
D. It helped too few people leave.
What does the attack on Elijah Lovejoy’s newspaper office show?
A. Abolition was widely accepted.
B. Newspapers had little influence.
C. Southern slavery had ended.
D. Some people used violence.
D. Some people used violence.
Why was the debate over suffrage at Seneca Falls important?
A. It ended the temperance movement.
B. It canceled the convention.
C. It changed all state laws.
D. It showed voting rights were controversial.
D. It showed voting rights were controversial.
Which woman discovered a comet and later taught at Vassar College?
A. Maria Mitchell
B. Mary Lyon
C. Sojourner Truth
D. Catherine Beecher
A. Maria Mitchell
Why was Horace Mann important to education reform?
A. He led the temperance movement.
B. He helped train better teachers.
C. He wrote abolitionist speeches.
D. He supported prison reform.
B. He helped train better teachers.
Which reformer developed a way to teach people who could not hear?
A. Thomas Gallaudet
B. Samuel Gridley Howe
C. Dorothea Dix
D. Lyman Beecher
A. Thomas Gallaudet
Who were Sarah and Angelina Grimké?
A. Sisters who opposed slavery
B. Leaders of prison reform
C. Poets who wrote about nature
D. Founders of normal schools
A. Sisters who opposed slavery
Why did some Northerners oppose abolitionists even though slavery had ended in the North?
A. They supported Seneca Falls.
B. They wanted slavery in the North.
C. They feared conflict and job competition.
D. They opposed education reform.
C. They feared conflict and job competition.
How was the Seneca Falls statement connected to American history?
A. It followed The Liberator’s format.
B. It was written like a state law.
C. It used ideas from the Declaration.
D. It copied the Constitution exactly.
C. It used ideas from the Declaration.
What is the best summary of women’s gains and limits during the 1800s?
A. Women gained full equality.
B. Women lost most legal rights.
C. Women made progress but still faced limits.
D. Women worked only in abolition.
C. Women made progress but still faced limits.