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Foy Ch. 14 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What woman was a middle-class reformer who helped to improve the living conditions of mentally ill patients nationwide? | Dorothea Dix |
| What woman was born Isabella Baumfree and later took a name that showed her mission in life? | Sojourner Truth |
| What places offered prisoners an education so that they could lead more productive lives upon their release? | Houses of Correction |
| What was the movement of Christian renewal in the 1790s and early 1800s called? | Second Great Awakening |
| Who published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women? | Sarah Grimke |
| As a well-known spokesperson for the Anti-Slavery Society, what woman was once referred to as “the first who really stirred the nation’s heart on the subject of women’s wrongs?” | Lucy Stone |
| After experiencing a religious rebirth in 1821, what man left his career as a lawyer and began preaching? | Charles Grandison Finney |
| What term, used in the debate over slavery in America, refers to a person who was in favor of ending the practice? | abolitionist |
| In 1835, what became the first college to accept African Americans? | Oberlin |
| Many immigrants lived in dirty, over-crowded, and unsafe buildings known by which of the following terms? | tenements |
| What society was an abolitionist group whose members called for freedom and equality for African Americans? | American Anti-Slavery |
| The new social class that arose in the mid-1800s that was neither poor nor wealthy was known as which of the following? | middle class |
| What man wanted to stop religious revival meetings from being held in the city of Boston? | Lyman Beecher |
| What man was the publisher of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| What was the reform movement that wanted people to limit the use of alcohol called? | temperance movement |
| People in what movement wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background? | common-school |
| What woman was an escaped slave who successfully led her family and more than 300 other slaves to freedom in the North? | Harriet Tubman |
| New York finally gave married women control of their money and property because of the efforts of what woman? | Susan B. Anthony |
| What was the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States? | Seneca Falls Convention |
| Where did most of the Irish immigrants settle? | the Northeast |
| Where did most of the millions of immigrants that settled in the U.S. in the 19th century come from? | Europe |
| Free African Americans, former slaves, and white abolitionists worked together to form which group that arranged transportation for escaped slaves? | Underground Railroad |
| What was the name for Americans who were against immigration? | nativists |
| What two countries did over 3 million immigrants come to America from in the mid-1800’s? | Germany and Ireland |
| Why did many immigrants flee Ireland in the 1840’s? | potato famine |
| Why did many educated Germans flee their home to come to America? | political unrest |
| Why did many native-born Americans fear losing their jobs to immigrants? | They feared the immigrants would work for less pay. |
| What were the conditions like in the crowded cities after the Industrial Revolution? | crime went unpunished, poor public services and fire spread quickly |
| If you believe that you don’t have to depend on material things to be happy, what philosophy would you believe in? | transcendentalism |
| You are a transcendentalist who wants to leave society and live in a perfect place. What would you call this new place? | utopian community |
| What women wrote the antislavery work, American Slavery As It Is? | Angelina and Sarah Grimké |
| What man escaped slavery and became one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800’s? | Frederick Douglass |
| What former slave traveled around the country preaching the truth about slavery and women’s rights? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who was paid to capture and return any fugitive slaves they found? | bounty hunters |
| What made emancipation of the slaves impossible in the South? | racism, fear and economic dependence |
| What reform movement led women to start fighting for their own rights? | abolition movement |
| What led women’s concerns to become a national issue? | Women took an active role in reform and abolition. |
| What was the purpose of the Declaration of Sentiments? | To detail their beliefs about social injustice toward women. |
| What historical document was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after? | Declaration of Independence |
| What organization did Elizabeth Cady Stanton found? | National Woman Suffrage Association |
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