History Chapter 14 Multiple Choice
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 Which of the following was a network of people who helped fugitive slaves?A) American Temperance Society B) American Colonization Society C) American Anti-Slavery Society D) Underground Railroad | D |
| Dorothea Dix began a campaign to help people with mental illnesses after being outraged by the way they were treated at A) hospitals. B) jails. C) health clinics. D) schools. | B |
| Dorothea Dix began a campaign to help people with mental illnesses after being outraged by the way they were treated at A) hospitals. B) jails. C) health clinics. D) schools. | B |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were A) praised for speaking in public for the abolition of slavery. B) former slaves who fought for women's rights. C) leaders in the fight for women's rights D) lived to see the day women received the vote | C |
| An immediate end to slavery A) abolition B) freedom C) emancipation D) nativists | A |
| Disguised herself as a white man to escape slavery in Georgia A) Ellen Craft B) Sojourner Truth C) Susan B. Anthony D) Dorothea Dix | A |
| Campaigned to improve the treatment of mentally ill people throughout the country A) Dorothea Dix B) Frederick Douglas C) Ellen Craft D) Charles Finney | A |
| A group of workers who banded together to seek better working conditions and pay. A) Strike B) Women C) Children D) Labor union | D |
| The leading voice for educational reform in the mid-1800s was A) William Holmes McGuffey. B) Josiah Quincy. C) Horace Mann. D) Lyman Beecher. | C |
| The first college in the United States to accept women was A) Harvard College. B) Oberlin College. C) Princeton University. D) Yale University. | B |
| Each person can have a sudden conversion and new spiritual relationship with God. A) evangelicalism B) Great Awakening C) abolition D) nativists | A |
| Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Women's Rights Movement? A) the right to vote B) establish independent communities for women in the western frontier C) educational opportunities D) gain control of property | B |
| Escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad A) Harriet Tubman B) Dorothea Dix C) Ellen Craft D) Susan B. Anthony | A |
| U.S. citizens who opposed immigration A) nativists B) Quakers C) evangelicalism D) abolition | A |
| Americans' concerns about the negative effects of alcohol led to the growth of a(n). A) temperance movement. B) utopian movement. C) evangelical movement. D) transcendental movement. | A |
| Former slave who changed her name to reflect her life's work. A) Sojourner Truth B) Dorothea Dix C) Harriet Tubman D) Ellen Craft | A |
| First organized women's rights meeting. A) Seneca Falls Convention B) Enlightenment C) Temperance Movement D) Great Awakening | A |
| The Declaration of Sentiments was A) presented at the Seneca Falls Convention by Sojourner Truth. B) a woman's rights document modeled on the Declaration of Independence. C) not well received at the Seneca Falls Convention. D) an abolitionist document modeled on the Declaration of Independence. | B |
| One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening. A) Charles Finney B) Frederick Douglass C) Henry Brown D) Dorothea Dix | A |
| Tenements were A) heavily populated by the middle class. B) a good solution to urban overcrowding. C) centers of many early utopian communities. D) dirty, overcrowded, and poorly built. | D |
| By 1860 these state legislatures had passed laws giving married women ownership of their wages and property. A) Kentucky and Ohio B) Massachusetts and Virginia C) New York and Mississippi D) Pennsylvania and California | C |
| Thomas Gallaudet established A) the first free U.S. school for people with hearing impairments. B) the nation's first school for teacher training. C) a U.S. school for people with visual impairments. D) the first African American college in the United States | A |
| Ex-slave who published The North Star and became one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800. A) Frederick Douglass B) Henry Brown C) Charles Finney D) Sojourner Truth | A |
| Religious sect that condemned slavery A) Quakers B) Mormons C) Abolitionists D) Nativists | A |
| What group wanted to exclude Catholics and foreigners from public office? A) transcendentalists B) nativists C) the middle class D) the Know-Nothing Party | B |
| Argued that women should receive equal pay A) Susan B. Anthony B) Ellen Craft C) Dorothea Dix D) Harriet Tubman | A |
| Mailed himself to freedom in a box. A) Henry Brown B) Frederick Douglass C) Charles Finney D) Harriet Tubman | A |
| Why did U.S. cities grow rapidly during the mid-1800s? A) Southern plantations had an abundance of agricultural jobs available. B) Northern factories needed laborers. C) Land was abundant D) Increased immigrant due to the Gold Rush. | B |
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