Antebellum Reform Movements

Poll

How familiar are you with this topic?

• This is brand new material

• I am fairly familiar

• I know a little bit

• I am basically and expert

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the Second Great Awakening?

• This was a movement to convert everyone to Catholicism.

• This was a movement that told everyone to stop going to church because their fate had already been determined.

• The Second Great Awakening encouraged everyone to improve themselves to improve society around them.

• The was a movement to strengthen one's devotion to god.

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a reason prisons were reformed?

• Prisons did not offer education during incareration.

• Prisons were crowded.

• The food was inadequate.

• Prisons were crowded with people that were poor and mentally ill.

Multiple Choice

The main goal of education reform was to

• To educate women to be better mothers.

• To help Americans get into the best universities.

• To create a pathway to future employment

• To educate future voters

Multiple Choice

Who was most likely to be well educated in the United States in the 1830's?

• White males in the South.

• Wealthy white males living in the Massachusetts.

• Anyone living in the North.

• Women attending boarding schools in Connecticut.

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true?

• Girls in the North had the same educational opportunities.

• By 1855 all children in the United States were required to attend public schools.

• By 1855 MA provided public education to Black children,

• The south led the education reform movement.

Multiple Choice

John Brown was an abolitionist.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Quakers and the Amercian Colonization Society both wanted the exact same things, immediate end of slavery and equal rigts for African Americans.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

After the gag rule was passed tension between abolitionists and pro-slavery senators ended.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The largest and most controversial reform movement was?

• Education

• Prison

• Women's Rights

• Slavery

Multiple Choice

Adding new territory to the United States forced the government to address the issue of slavery.

• True

• False