Reform Movements VARem

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During the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, immigrants from China and Ireland helped build railroad along with ex-slaves. Which ports did the Chinese and Irish arrive? (Select 2)

Multiple Choice

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening and religious revivals?

• People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems.

• Politicians were encouraged to promote states’ rights rather than federal unity.

• Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women.

• Churches turned away from public politics and focused on internal religious issues.

Multiple Choice

What was the main focus of Dorothea Dix's reform work?

• Women's rights

• Education reform

• Care for the disabled and prison reform

• Abolition of slavery

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Prison reform pushed for ​

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prison conditions.

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited the United States..

• Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients.

• Doctors were required to get federal licenses to practice medicine.

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals.

• The government distributed land to poor people.

Multiple Choice

This bar graph shows historical trends in the U.S. work force.

The trend illustrated in this graph led to a demand to pass laws —

• guaranteeing gender equality in the workplace

• limiting the use of merit-based exams in the workplace

• prohibiting union membership based on gender

• supporting federal employee fund-raising efforts

Multiple Choice

. Daughters of Temperance

. Women's Christian Temperance Union

How did the growth of these organizations most affect the role of women in U.S. society?

• By providing economic opportunities for women in urban areas

• By expanding the participation of women in social reform

• By increasing the number of women teachers in rural areas

• By securing the establishment of private universities for women

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Match the following

• Working class

• Women and Children

• Pollution

• Child Labor

Worked 12-14 hours 6 days a week

Earned 1/4-1/2 of the wages of men

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ages 9-13 worked up to 9 hours a day

• Worked 12-14 hours 6 days a week

• Earned 1/4-1/2 of the wages of men

• no regulation on emissions

• ages 9-13 worked up to 9 hours a day

Match

Match the following

• Horace Mann

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

• Henry David Thoreau

Education Reform

Abolition

Prison Reform

Transcendentalism

• Education Reform

• Abolition

• Prison Reform

• Transcendentalism

Reform Movements
Continuation..

8.24(A) describe and evaluate the historical development of the abolition movement, including

activities that focused attention on the moral ills of slavery

8.22(B) describe the contributions of significant political, social, ... leaders of the United States

such as Frederick Douglass,

1. ​What do you notice?

2. What do you wonder?

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People who were Anti-Slavery were called ​

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​

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 is the white publisher of anti-slavery newspaper called the “​

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  former slave; speaker against slavery;

publisher of “​

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Abolitionists

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator

Frederick Douglas

The North Star

Answer and Explain.

Read the question carefully and answer using the RAE strategy.

*Who was Frederick Douglass AND how did he contribute to the
abolition movement?

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Multiple Choice

Who was the first African-American woman to become well-known as an anti-slavery speaker?

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Virginia Brown

Multiple Choice

Read the list and answer the question that follows.

. Harriet Tubman

. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

. William Lloyd Garrison

The people on this list are similar because their actions -

• promoted interest in agricultural innovation

• promoted support for westward expansion

• showed dedication to sectionalism and states' rights

• showed commitment to rights and freedoms

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.These contributions were made by leading reformers in U.S. history.

Move each contribution to the correct reformer. Not all answers will be used.

Led efforts to promote women's right to vote​

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Worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill​

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Wrote about the hardships of slavery​

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Dorothea Dix

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sojourner Truth