Unit 4 reform

Which description of the second Great Awakening is correct?

• a time of religious revival in the early 1800s

• a period of artistic achievement in the late 1800s

• a movement to reform education in the early 1800s

• a fascination with Native American cultures in the late 1800s

Which social reform movement founded by Lyman Beecher arose as a result of the second Great Awakening in the early 1800s?

• Temperance

• Enlightenment

• Reformation

• Nativism

Which document of the mid-1800s stated that women and men are equal?

• Seneca Falls Declaration

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Homestead Act

• Compromise of 1850

Which woman is not correctly matched with the reform she worked for?

• Angelina Grimké - the end of slavery

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton - women's rights

• Dorothea Dix - prison reform

• Susan B. Anthony - an end to alcohol abuse

Which description of education reforms introduced in the early 1800s is correct?

• public schools and McGuffey readers

• free colleges and business schools

• year-round school and teacher research

• special education classes and schools for the gifted

Why did many reformers want to improve education in the United States in the early 1800s?

• American democracy needed educated citizens.

• New factories required educated, highly skilled workers.

• Higher standards would attract wealthy, foreign students.

• Educated women could run for public office.

Which nineteenth-century American values came from the Puritans of the 1600s?

• a sense of duty and love of learning

• generosity toward the poor and the equality of all people

• religious tolerance and the value of recreation

• equality of the sexes and appreciation of nature

Which is a correct definition of the term civil disobedience?

• violating a law out of a sense that it is unjust

• forgetting to fill out a government census form

• removing public property without obtaining permission

• inciting violent revolution against the state

Which describes the work of Henry David Thoreau?

• His essay on civil disobedience inspired Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi.

• His books on nature inspired artists to focus on painting landscapes of the American West.

• His poetry on the Revolutionary War became the basis for many patriotic songs.

• His stories and novels about Indians and the frontier are still popular reading today.

Which best-selling novel by Louisa May Alcott was based on her own family life and experiences as a girl in Massachusetts during the Civil War?

• Little Women

• Leatherstocking Tales

• Walden

• The Last of the Mohicans