Reform Movements

This image shows a replica of the cabin Henry David Thoreau built at Walden Pond. Thoreau is known for a book he wrote about

• building cabins.

• living close to nature.

• an ideal community.

• Charles Finney.

Thoreau was a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists believed that people should

• question society's rules.

• conform to others' expectations.

• live alone to find God.

• attend religious meetings.

The Second Great Awakening inspired many people to

• oppose the Mexican-American War.

• support prison reform.

• oppose model communities.

• oppose slavery.

Who was the central figure in the transcendentalist movement?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• George Ripley

• Charles Finney

• Sojourner Truth

For about how many years did Dorothea Dix investigate conditions in prisons and almshouses?

• about three years

• about two years

• about four years

• about ten years

In the jails and asylums near Boston, Dix found mentally ill and insane persons

• receiving no care or treatment for their conditions

• living in cages and bound in chains

• living in prisons

• all of the above

What did Dix believe is the only way to remedy, or correct, "the evils to which I refer, and which I shall proceed more fully to illustrate"?

• better training for the prison wardens who house the mentally ill

• punishment for the prison wardens who house the mentally ill

• legislation to create public facilities for the mentally ill

• forcing families to care for mentally ill relatives at home

What did Dix believe is the only way to remedy, or correct, "the evils to which I refer, and which I shall proceed more fully to illustrate"?

• the state of Massachusetts

• prison wardens

• citizens of Massachusetts

• criminals

According to the Common School Journal, who or what is responsible educating the people?

• individual citizens

• private schools

• the government

• churches

According to the Common School Journal in 1852 what was the state of public education for that year?

• All states had public schools.

• Some states had public schools.

• Each state had one public school.

• No states had public schools.