Chapter 15 Review

15.1 - The Spirit of Reform Questions An organized attempt to improve what is unjust in society Reform A religious movement that swept the nation in the early 1800s The Second Great Awakening A reformer who brought about change in the way prisoners and the mentally ill were treated Dorthea Dix The system of prisons is called the this system Penal System

15.1 - The Spirit of Reform Questions A reformer for universal public education supported by taxpayers Horace Mann The campaign to control the abuse of alcohol Temperance Movement A Connecticut schoolteacher who opened a school for African Americans girls Prudence Crandall The idea that God has decided in advance who will have salvation in heaven Predestination

15.1 - The Spirit of Reform True or False Social reform has its roots in religion and political thought True In the early 1800s, most people in Northern jails were imprisoned for nonpayment of debts Huge outdoor political meetings were called revivals False Men actually drank less in the 1800s than today because alcohol was difficult to get

15.2 - The Fight Against Slavery Questions The group that wanted to relocate freed and enslaved African Americans to a colony in Africa American Colonization Society A person who fights for the end of slavery Abolitionist Bostonian who published the antislavery newspaper The Liberator William Lloyd Garrison  African American who published the antislavery newspaper The North Star Frederick Douglass

15.2 - The Fight Against Slavery Questions The network of people and places in the North who helped escaped slaves make their way to Canada Underground Railroad Two South Carolinian sisters, born into a wealthy family, who helped lectured on the evils of slavery Angelina and Sarah Gremke Famous African American woman who helped over 300 slaves escape Harriet Tubman

15.2 - The Fight Against Slavery True or False The antislavery movement had its roots in religion and the Declaration of Independence True The American Colonization Society found the African nation of Nigeria, the Latin word for “free” False All abolitionists wanted an immediate end to slavery The Underground Railroad actually were trains that ran underground so they couldn’t be seen or heard

15.2 - The Fight Against Slavery True or False The abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were both escaped slaves True William Lloyd Garrison and the Grimke sisters were all escaped slaves False Abolitionists were almost always popular in the South Many Southerners believed that abolitionists threatened the very life and culture of the South

William Lloyd Garrison Horace Mann Harriet Tubman Dorothea Dix __ led the fight for better schools in Massachusetts. __ was a fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad. __ Published anti-slavery paper called The Liberator.

Dorothea Dix Frederick Douglass Horace Mann Charles Grandison Finney __ Best known African American abolitionist and publisher of The North Star. __ Worked for better treatment of the mentally ill and for prison reform. __ leader of the Second Great Awakening.

Second Great Awakening Predestination. Abolitionists social reform Second Great Awakening Predestination Abolitionists social reform revivals Huge outdoor religious meetings were called ____________. _____________ is the belief that God decided in advance which people would gain salvation in heaven. An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society is called _________________. The name for the group of Americans who wanted to end slavery in the United States completely was the ____________.

_____ Some northern workers were opposed to abolitionist goals because the workers thought that A. freed slaves might take their jobs. B. southern states might stop buying northern goods. C. more factories would open in the South. D. abolitionists caused violence. _____ The American Colonization Society failed in part because A. most black Americans did not want to move to Africa. B. it did not promise full rights to settlers in Liberia. C. free blacks could not afford to move to Africa. D. President Monroe opposed setting up a colony in Liberia. _____ The underground railroad helped free slaves by A. providing them with train tickets. B. encouraging slave revolts. C. teaching slaves to read and write. D. setting up hiding places and routes to the North. _____ By the 1850s. free public elementary schools existed in A. Massachusetts. B. most northern states. C. most southern states. D. almost all states.

_____ Southerners who owned no slaves defended slavery because they A. thought slavery was needed for the southern economy to survive. B. never saw the cruelties of slavery. C. wanted the South to build new industry. D. feared the South would have no skilled workers if slavery ended. _____ Which state ordered every town to create an elementary school in the 1820s? A. Virginia B. New York C. New Jersey D. Massachusetts _____ In response to the temperance movement, some states A. reformed public education. B. banned the sale of alcohol. C. abolished slavery. D. held revival meetings. _____ Dorothea Dix worked for prison reform because A. many inmates were in jail because they were mentally ill. B. most prisoners were hardened criminals. C. she believed imprisonment was evil. D. she thought debtors should be treated as criminals.