Chapter 13 History Test

What did Dorothea Dix discover during her visits to prisons in 1841 that made reforming prisons her life's work?

- The prisoners lived under terrible conditions. -Some prisoners were innocent but suffering from mental illness.

. What was distinctive about American literature in the early and mid-1800s?

- Writers began to explore American themes and American history. - Writers stressed the importance of the individual conscience.

A majority of white people in the North opposed abolition because they

-believed that a prohibition on slavery might trigger a war with people in the South. -did not think free African Americans could successfully blend into society.

Which group strongly supported the Women's Suffrage Movement?

Abolitionists

Who resorted to violence to end slavery?

John Brown

Why did women in the West get suffrage sooner than the rest of the United States?

Less women in the West so pioneer women worked side by side with men on the land

Which African nation was established by formerly enslaved African Americans who settled there?

Liberia

Which two women were mainly responsible for organizing the Seneca Falls Convention?

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What did the "Declaration of Sentiments" state?

Men and women should be treated equally under the law.

What was Harriet Tubman's nickname?

Moses

Which statements describe education in the United States in the early 1800s?

Most schools were not well financed. Many teachers had not received adequate training.

Why was slavery generally supported by southerners?

Slavery helped them make money from plantations

Those who traveled on the Underground Railroad to escape slavery

followed conductors along routes to safe houses. traveled by foot at night to avoid capture. used the North Star as a directional tool.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is well known because she fought for

women's suffrage

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

wrote narrative poems, such as the Song of Hiawatha

Harriet Beecher Stowe

wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

Sojourner Truth's key role in the abolitionist movement was that of a(n)

speaker and lecturer.

At the Seneca Falls Convention, fierce debate took place among delegates regarding the call for woman__________ or the right to vote in elections.

suffrage

39 The right to vote in elections is referred to as

suffrage.

Which of these were pro-slavery arguments put forth by Southerners who opposed abolitionism?

- Abolition would destroy the Southern economy, which was founded on slave labor. - Slavery had allowed white Southerners to become more educated and cultured.

Which statements correctly describe the life of Sojourner Truth?

- She was an active supporter of women's rights. - She was born a slave in New York. - She changed her name from Isabella Baumfree.

What year did women win the right to vote?

1920

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th

Theodore Weld is known for

American Slavery As It Is.

Who left a wealthy slave-owning family in South Carolina to become an Abolitionist?

Angelina Grimke

Why were women suffragists angry about the 15th amendment?

Because it gave African American men the right to vote

Walt Whitman

Choice, examined uniquely American themes in the poetry collection Leaves of Grass

Margaret Fuller

Choice, helped found the literary movement called Transcendentalism

Emily Dickinson

Choice, wrote hundreds of deeply personal poems, often based on nature

Utopia

Communities based on a vision of a perfect society

Which African American abolitionist wrote a fiery pamphlet encouraging African Americans to take an active role in fighting their oppression?

David Walker

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 crafted a document that was very similar to the __________________.

Declaration of Independence

This passage from the Seneca Falls Declaration is evidence that women's rights advocates modeled their document on the

Declaration of Independence.

The Seneca Falls Convention was the last major women's rights convention in the United States.

False

The network of secret routes used by abolitionists to help fugitive enslaved people in the South escape to the North and to Canada was called the

Underground railroad

Who ran away from slavery and became a powerful anti-slavery speaker alongside William Lloyd Garrison?

Frederick Douglass

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south.

Fugitive Slave Act

John Brown was hanged for leading a raid on _____.

Harper's Ferry

Who was the ex-slave who worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

The most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad was

Harriet Tubman.

What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention?

It was the first large gathering in the Women's Suffrage movement

What was Horace Mann's contribution to educational reform in the United States?

He was instrumental in the founding of the first state-supported school for the training of teachers in the United States.

During the mid- to late-1800s, several states passed laws that granted married women the right to

Own property

Many abolitionists, such as Benjamin Lundy, were

Quakers.

Which of the following women was born into slavery and later became a speaker for abolition and women's rights?

Sojourner Truth

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and ________________ formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Susan B. Anthony

Who was arrested for trying to vote?

Susan B. Anthony

What was the name of the document written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrecia Mott?

The Declaration of Sentiments

During the Women's Suffrage Movement protests were often used to increased public support. Which constitutional right is being exercised in this photograph?

The First Amendment

How did the goals of antislavery groups begin to change in the 1830s?

They began calling for the immediate end to slavery.

Which is the best description of the works of the Hudson River School?

They glorified the majesty of nature

Which is true of early antislavery societies in the United States?

They wanted to end the slave trade first and then end slavery.

Why did some white abolitionists support the movement to send free African Americans to Africa?

They were uncomfortable with the idea of hundreds of thousands of free African Americans living in the United States.

Dorothea Dix

exposed the deplorable conditions in America's prisons and the poor treatment of the mentally ill

This was a novel that showed how evil slavery was. It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What literary work did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought attention to the brutal conditions of slavery? Hao Huynh's Response

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What secret organization helped slaves escape to freedom?

Underground Railroad

Abolitionist

Who sought the end of slavery

Who convinced Frederick Douglass to start speaking about his experience as a slave?

William Lloyd Garrison

Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

William Lloyd Garrison

Which statement best represents the events in the picture?

Women wanted the president to support equal rights and the right to vote for females.

normal school

a school for training high school graduates as teachers

A______________is a person who sought to end slavery in the United States.

abolitionist

When the writer Henry David Thoreau spent one night in jail in 1846 for refusing to pay taxes that went to support the Mexican American War, he was practicing

civil disobedience.

What was Harriet Tubman's role on the Underground Railroad?

conductor

Thomas Gallaudet

developed a method to teach those with hearing impairments; founded the Hartford School for the Deaf

Women had limited career choices in the 1800s, which makes the achievement of Elizabeth Blackwell, who achieved fame as a(n) ______, particularly noteworthy.

doctor

In the 1800s, a woman was most likely to be employed as a(n)

elementary school teacher.

After the Seneca Falls Convention, Susan B. Anthony emerged as a key leader in the women's rights movement. She campaigned tirelessly for

equal pay and higher education for women.

Emma Willard

established the Troy Female Seminary in New York, which stressed academics, including math, history, and physics, as well as homemaking

Sojourner Truth preached to people about _____.

evils of slavery

Mary Lyon

founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts, the curriculum for which was modeled on the all-male Amherst College

William Lloyd Garrison

founded the American Anti-Slavery Society

Frederick Douglass' speeches and writings about slaves were believable to people because

he was a former slave and experienced the conditions himself.

As a leader in the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass

helped publish antislavery newspaper articles. spoke at abolitionist meetings in the United States and abroad.

Sarah and Angelina Grimké

inherited and then freed several of the family's enslaved workers

When Oberlin College of Ohio opened in 1833, it was notable because

it accepted women and African American students.

Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, some Americans decided to

join social reform movements. become missionaries.

During the 1800s, a new spirit of reform brought changes to American

literature. education. religion.

American artists such as Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives

made prints that depicted everyday life, holidays, and sporting events.

Temperance

movement to ban alcohol

In 1830 African American leaders assembled at a convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Which issues were discussed at the convention?

opening a college for African American students urging free African Americans to emigrate to Canada

The abolitionists worked to

put an end to slavery.

Samuel Gridley Howe

ran the Perkins Institute, a school for people with vision impairments; printed books using Braille

Revival

religious meeting

During the Second Great Awakening, a series of religious meetings called----- spread across the nation.

rivitiel

One of the key reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening was the push for________ or the drinking of little or no alcohol.

temperance

Many leaders in the women's rights movement were also active in

the abolitionist movement.

The Seneca Falls Declaration was above all a document asserting

the equality of women and men.

Civil Disobedience

the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust

Suffrage

the right to vote in elections

coeducation

the teaching of males and females together

What does emancipation mean?

to free someone from slavery

Some reformers sought to improve American society by creating----which were communities based on a vision of the perfect society.

utopias

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

vote in political elections

Abolitionists believed in all of the following about slavery EXCEPT that it:

was necessary for the success of the Southern plantation

Some Southerners argued that, in comparison to workers in the Northern states, enslaved people in the South

were better off because they received free food, clothing, and medical care.

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights, delegates resolved that

women should have full access to positions in business and industry. discriminatory laws against women should be repealed.