The American Journey © 2012

Chapter 14: The Age of Reform

Self-Check Quizzes

1
A community based on a vision of a perfect society was a __________.
A)monastery
B)utopia
C)cooperative
D)kibbutz
2
__________ helped develop methods to educate people who were hearing impaired.
A)Samuel Gridley Howe
B)Ralph Waldo Emerson
C)Thomas Gallaudet
D)Mary Lyon
3
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was __________.
A)Harriet Beecher Stowe
B)Henry David Thoreau
C)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D)Walt Whitman
4
Abolitionists wanted to __________.
A)improve prisons
B)provide humane institutions for the mentally handicapped
C)stop the war with Mexico
D)end slavery
5
The most widely known African American abolitionist was __________.
A)William Lloyd Garrison
B)Elijah Lovejoy
C)Frederick Douglass
D)Angelina Grimke
6
The American Colonization Society worked to build a colony for African Americans in _____.
A)Canada
B)Liberia
C)Ghana
D)Great Britain
7
Harriet Tubman is best known for her work with the __________.
A)education reform movement
B)women's rights movement
C)Temperance movement
D)Underground Railroad
8
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was modeled after the __________.
A)Magna Carta
B)Declaration of Independence
C)U.S. Constitution
D)Bill of Rights
9
The first state to grant women the right to vote was __________.
A)Wyoming
B)Arizona
C)New York
D)North Carolina
10
Emma Willard and Mary Lyon worked to provide women with more opportunities for __________.
A)property ownership
B)education
C)travel
D)business
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