1. Chapter 15
Review

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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 ____________.

12. _____ 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.

13. _____ 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.