Chapter 15 Reform Quiz

Based on the timeline , in which year were women granted voting rights in Wyoming Territory?

• 1869
• 1878
• 1893
• 1919

Which famous African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery as a runaway?

• John Russwurm
• Frederick Douglass
• Samuel Cornish
• William Lloyd Garrison

What was a main demand of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions?

• Men should not be allowed to attend future conventions.
• Enslaved African Americans should be freed.
• Discrimination against women should be ended.
• Women should be required to marry.

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• William Lloyd Garrison

Thoreau refused to pay a tax he disagreed with. This is an example of ____.

• civil disobedience
• transcendentalism
• revival
• reform

Which publication was a novel about life under slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Liberator
• Freedom's Journal
• American Slavery As It Is

Which statement best describes the period known as the Second Great Awakening?

• Americans realized they needed a new constitution.
• Americans became more interested in religion.
• Americans refused to pay their taxes.
• Americans went to war over slavery.

Who started the Hartford School for the Deaf?

• Horace Mann
• Samuel Gridley Howe
• Thomas Gallaudet
• Dorothea Dix

The purpose of the Underground Railroad was to ____.

• bring fresh water to Southern communities
• allow people to travel safely during wars
• help enslaved people reach freedom in the North
• transport people to new homes in Liberia

Dorothea Dix worked to ____.

• end slavery
• organize religious revivals
• start schools for the blind
• improve life for the mentally ill