Reform Movements in Antebellum America



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Reform Movements in Antebellum America NAME: ________________________________________________________
1. List 3 effects of the Second Great Awakening

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2. What was transcendentalism and in what way Henry David Thoreau exhibit (showed) his transcendentalist ideas?

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3. In what way did Dorothea Dix improve prisons and treatment of mentally ill?

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4. List 3 reforms that took place in education during the antebellum period.

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B.



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5. In what way the following abolitionists wanted to accomplish emancipation (be specific):



William Lloyd Garrison





David Walker





Frederick Douglass




Sarah and Angelina Grimke



6. List 3 ways in which women were discriminated during the antebellum period.



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B.


C.

7. What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention and what did it achieve?


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Self Assessment
1. For which action is Nat Turner well known?

a. leading a violent slave revolt b. fighting in the American Revolution

c. publishing an antislavery newspaper d. promoting a nonviolent end to slavery
2. What did the abolition movement promote?

a. relocating black slaves to Africa b. prohibiting the drinking of alcohol

c. removing Native Americans from eastern states d. ending the institution of slavery
3. What term refers to the 19th-century belief that married women's activities should be limited to housework and family?

a. feminism b. temperance c. the cult of sentiments d. the cult of domesticity


4. In which philosophical movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson a leader?

a. utopianism b. Unitarianism c. humanitarianism d. transcendentalism


5. As an abolitionist, Frederick Douglass favored

a. political action to end slavery. b. violent rebellion by blacks.

c. resettlement of blacks in Africa. d. a spiritual promise of freedom.
6. At the Seneca Falls Convention, a resolution that women should receive the right to vote was

a. voted down. b. not even presented. c. only narrowly approved. d. approved unanimously.


7. The temperance movement recognized

a. the equality of men and women. b. the importance of the church as a political voice for blacks.



c. the destructive effects of drunkenness on family life. d. the truth found in nature and the imagination.
8. The Second Great Awakening centered on the belief that a person's salvation depended on

a. the help of a minister. b. his or her own efforts. c. the determination of God. d. his or her attendance at revival meetings.

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