Unit 8: Reforming America (Chapter 8)
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- Q1What was the Abolitionist Movement?a movement to return escaped slaves to their ownersa movement to expand slaverya movement to prohibit drinking alcohola movement to end slavery30s
- Q2The Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls in 1848 stated:education reform was needed.mental health reform was needed.all men and women are created equal.prison reform was needed.30s
- Q3He was an abolitionist that published the anti-slavery newspaper, The LiberatorNat TurnerHorace MannWilliam Lloyd GarrisonFrederick Douglass30s
- Q4Wrote Walden and On Civil Disobedience ... he was a transcendentalist from MassachusettsRalph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauWilliam Lloyd GarrisonCharles G. Finney30s
- Q5Thoreau's Civil Disobedience urged peoplenot to obey laws they consider unjustto become one with natureto pursue material goodsto protest with violence30s
- Q6Former slave, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, famous for speech Ain't I A WomanSojourner TruthSarah GrimkéAngelina GrimkéElizabeth Cady Stanton30s
- Q7Antebellum describesPeriod of time before the Civil WarPeriod of time after the Civil WarPeriod of time before World War 1Period of time after World War 130s
- Q8Which of the following best describes Frederick Douglass?former slave who wrote antislavery newspaper, The North Starrunaway slave who spoke for women's rightsAfrican American who led rebellion that killed white plantation ownersbegan philosophy transcendentalism30s
- Q9Which of the following best describes Nat Turner?led rebellion that killed white plantation ownersthe Father of the Common Schoolrunaway slave that spoke for women's rightsreformer for public schools30s
- Q10Which of the following best describes the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?held to argue for women's rightsgroup that met that limited the women's right to speak in publicmovement to ban the drinking of alcoholsocial customs that restricted women to caring for the house30s
- Q11What was the the “Declaration of Sentiments” composed at the Seneca Falls Convention?it described the unfair treatment of women and outlined steps toward greater equalityit was an antislavery newspaperit explained that housework and childcare were considered the only proper activities for married womenit was a document that urged women not to follow laws they considered unjust60s
- Q12What religious movement led to the reform movements of the antebellum era?AbolitionThe First Great AwakeningThe Second Great AwakeningThe Protestant Reformation30s
- Q13What movement was started because of alcohol abuse in America?Women's RightsTemperance movementAbolitionSecond Great Awakening45s
- Q14Who was the reformer that advocated for the education of all children in America?Charles G. FinneyDorothea DixHorace MannWilliam Lloyd Garrison30s
- Q15What was the outcome of Nat Turner's Rebellion?led to emancipation of all the slavesled to loosened control of Southern plantation owners of their slavesled to deaths of hundreds of slaves and strengthened Southern defense of slaveryled to expansion of slavery in the South60s