7 Ch.15

The Shakers were the only religious group able to establish a lasting utopian community.

• True

• False

The abolitionist Sojourner Truth was given her name by her former slaveholder

• true

• false

Elizabeth Blackwell graduated first in her medical school class after having been turned down by several other schools.

• true

• false

In the 1840s students learned to become teachers at normal schools.

• true

• false

The Grimké sisters spoke out against abolition.

• true

• false

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• abolitionist newspaper

• book portraying the cruelties of slavery

• religious camp meetings

• leader of educational reform

• poet

Horace Mann

• abolitionist newspaper

• book portraying the cruelties of slavery

• religious camp meetings

• leader of educational reform

• poet

. The Liberator

• abolitionist newspaper

• book portraying the cruelties of slavery

• . religious camp meetings

• leader of educational reform

• poet

. By 1830 what was the most pressing social issue for reformers?

• antislavery movement

• . free education

• prohibition

• women’s right to vote

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started Freedom’s Journal, the country’s first

• African American newspaper.

• antislavery publication.

• . pro-slavery newspaper.

• spiritual review.