Reformers Learning Check

Reform means to - 

• change something in order to improve it
• cause widespread destruction
• move to a different country permanently
• start an economic bidding war

Which of these caused the Age of Reform to happen?

• Jackson's policies as President
• The ongoing conversation about slavery
• the Industrial Revolution
• ALL OF THESE

The religious movement that swept through the states in the 1800s, was called the - 

• 2nd Great Awakening
• Temperance Movement
• Underground Railroad
• Transcendentalism

The reform to ban alcohol was called - 

• Temperance
• Abolition
• Women's Suffrage
• Transcendentalism

This reformer helped improve prison conditions and treatment of the mentally ill

• Dorothea Dix
• Harriet Tubman
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Frederick Douglass

Why would factories would prefer child labor to adult labor?

• Children could be paid lower wages
• Children were demanding higher wages
• Children were more skilled workers
• A child work force looked good on the quarterly statements

The movement that inspired people to trust their inner conscience and think "beyond" was called - 

• abolitionism
• transcendentalism
• temperance
• fundamentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were lead - 

• transcendentalists
• British soldiers
• Native Americans
• plantation owners

Henry David Thoreau practiced _______________, which means to protest the government in a non-violent way.

• civil disobedience
• civil rights
• civil liberties
• civilian law

This reformer was the most well-known African American abolitionist.  He was a former slave, who escaped and taught himself how to read & write.

• Frederick Douglass
• Jackie Robinson
• Susan B. Anthony
• Horace Mann