Social Reform Review Part Two

People who were involved in ending the practice of slavery in the 1800s were called

• anti-slavers

• Freedom fighters

• Transcendentalists

• Abolitionists

Sojourner Truth was a abolitionist and a women's rights leader.

• True
• False

Having a preamble, a declaration of rights, a list of grievances, and a statement of their resolve to be free, the Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after what important document in American History?

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Declaration of Independence

While the right to vote is most commonly associated with the Women's rights movement, what aspect of women's life did the movement dedicate considerably more attention to than others?

• RIght to political service

• Right to own property

• Right to divorce

• Right to higher education

Consisting of safe houses, caves, and hidden paths, what was the name given to the route traveled by escaping slaves in the 1800s?

• The Freedom Route

• The Middle Passage

• The Underground Railroad

• The Underground Highway

Referred to as "the Moses of her people," what former slave was both the most well-known conductor on the Underground Railroad and a spy for the North?

• Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia Mott

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

Why did the recolonization efforts of the American Colonization Society ultimately fail?

• They did not have enough support from leading abolitionists

• They could not secure enough funding to continue their efforts

• Slaves did not want to be freed and sent "back" to Africa, they wanted to be free in America

• The colony of Liberia stopped accepting freed slaves

Which former president defended the slaves aboard the Amistad, convincing the Supreme Court that the slaves had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus were free under American law?

• John Adams

• James Monroe

• Andrew Jackson

• John Quincy Adams

Which issue at the Seneca Falls Convention was almost not included in the Declaration of Sentients because many attendees at the convention considered the issue to be too controversial?

• The right to Vote

• The right to own property

• The right to work outside the home

• The right to hold political office

What event prompted Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

• Stanton had been denied the opportunity to divorce her husband the year prior

• Mott had been denied admission to Harvard College

• There was no specific event; they had planned the event for years

• They had been turned away from an abolitionist conference in London because they were women