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Chapter 14 Review Quiz



True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

The Shakers were the only religious group able to establish a lasting utopian community.
 

 2. 

In the 1840s, students learned to become teachers at normal schools.
 

 3. 

Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts admitted only African Americans.
 

 4. 

Henry David Thoreau went to jail to protest a tax to support the Mexican War.
 

 5. 

Members of the United States government had tried to limit slavery as early as 1776.
 

 6. 

The Grimké sisters asked for their inheritance in the form of money to support their abolitionist writings.
 

 7. 

The abolitionist Sojourner Truth was given her name by her former owner.
 

 8. 

Elijah Lovejoy, an abolitionist leader, was killed by a mob in Illinois.
 

 9. 

Shaker women, such as Lucretia Mott, had more equality in their communities than did other women of the time.
 

 10. 

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
 

 11. 

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the women's rights movement after forming a friendship in 1851.
 

 12. 

Elizabeth Blackwell graduated first in her medical school class after having been initially turned down by more than 20 other schools.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 13. 

New Harmony, Indiana, was an example of a
a.
revival.
c.
utopia.
b.
frontier camp.
d.
college.
 

 14. 

Who was the leader of education who lengthened the school year to six months?
a.
Lyman Beecher
c.
Charles Finney
b.
Horace Mann
d.
Dorothea Dix
 

 15. 

The first college for African Americans was
a.
Holy Cross.
c.
Oberlin College.
b.
Mount Holyoke.
d.
Ashmun Institute.
 

 16. 

Writers Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were
a.
enslaved people.
c.
revivalists.
b.
utopians.
d.
Transcendentalists.
 

 17. 

Which writer wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
a.
Washington Irving
c.
Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Herman Melville
d.
Charles Finney
 

 18. 

The first white abolitionist to call for the "immediate and complete emancipation" of enslaved people was
a.
Benjamin Lundy.
c.
David Walker.
b.
William Lloyd Garrison.
d.
Frederick Douglass.
 

 19. 

What was the name of the former enslaved African American who had never been taught to read or write, but spoke with wit and wisdom?
a.
Sojourner Truth
c.
Harriet Tubman
b.
Dorothea Dix
d.
Sarah Grimké
 

 20. 

Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own bondage and formed the
a.
temperance movement.
c.
suffrage movement.
b.
education movement.
d.
women's rights movement.
 

 21. 

The first women's rights convention was held in
a.
Georgia.
c.
Virginia.
b.
New York.
d.
Ohio.
 

 22. 

Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
a.
New York
c.
Indiana
b.
Wyoming
d.
Ohio
 

 23. 

In the 1800s, there was a wave of religious fervor known as the
a.
Religious Right.
c.
Religious Awakening.
b.
Second Great Awakening.
d.
Revival Times.
 

 24. 

What movement called for drinking little or no alcohol?
a.
Transcendentalist
c.
temperance
b.
utopia communities
d.
reformers
 

 25. 

Who became head of education in Massachusetts in 1837?
a.
Lyman Beecher
c.
George Catlin
b.
Horace Mann
d.
Charles Finney
 

 26. 

Who wrote Moby Dick, an epic tale of a whaling captain?
a.
Herman Melville
c.
Maria Mitchell
b.
Edgar Allan Poe
d.
Theodore Weld
 

 27. 

Who wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems?
a.
Edgar Allan Poe
c.
Emily Dickinson
b.
Herman Melville
d.
Maria Mitchell
 

 28. 

Who purchased his freedom from the slaveholder he had fled?
a.
Frederick Douglass
c.
Charles T. Weber
b.
Horace Mann
d.
Theodore Weld
 

 29. 

The network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people was the
a.
Escape Network.
c.
Underground Railroad.
b.
Slave Network.
d.
Southern Escape Route.
 

 30. 

Who was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor?
a.
Sojourner Truth
c.
Harriet Tubman
b.
Angelina Grimké
d.
Sarah Grimké
 

 31. 

The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned
a.
education.
c.
jobs.
b.
suffrage.
d.
slavery.
 

 32. 

Who founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children?
a.
Theodore Weld
c.
Susan B. Anthony
b.
Frederick Douglass
d.
Elizabeth Blackwell
 

Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Frederick Douglass
d.
"place of freedom"
b.
revivals
e.
Dorothea Dix
c.
Underground Railroad
 

 33. 

frontier camp meetings
 

 34. 

reformed care for mentally ill
 

 35. 

Liberia
 

 36. 

North Star editor
 

 37. 

runaway slave escape route
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Henry David Thoreau
d.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b.
John James Audubon
e.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c.
Maria Mitchell
 

 38. 

painted birds
 

 39. 

practiced civil disobedience
 

 40. 

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
 

 41. 

demanded woman suffrage
 

 42. 

discovered a comet
 



 
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