Chapter 13: The Spirit of Reform

A utopia is a community based on a vision of a perfect society.

• True

• False

Religious leaders fought for the freedom to drink alcohol.

• True

• False

In 1839 Massachusetts founded the first state-supported school to train teachers.

• True

• False

Most parents in the 1800s wanted their daughters to be educated and have careers.

• True

• False

During the 1820s, American artists developed their own style and explored American themes.

• True

• False

Who opened Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817?

• Dorothea Dix

• Horace Mann

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• Thomas Gallaudet

Which was the first college in the United States to admit women and African Americans?

• Ashmun Institute

• Harvard University

• Mount Holyoke

• Oberlin College of Ohio

Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?

• Dorothea Dix

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• George Catlin

• Thomas Gallaudet

What were people called who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience?

• conscience-raisers

• naturalists

• reformers

• transcendentalists

Which author wrote Leaves of Grass?

• Emily Dickinson

• Herman Melville

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman