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Americans in the 1800s
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1
The leader of the Education Reform movement was:
Horace Mann
Elizabeth Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Dorothea Dix
2
Someone who favors agricultural economy/way of life is known as:
an industrialist
a missionary
an abolitionist
an agrarian
3
Most slaves started working by which age?
16
6
11
1
4
One problem with the prison system was:
Solitary Confinement
Children were jailed with adults
There was no right to trial by jury
There was no bail
5
This is the belief that one race is superior to another.
abolitionism
slavery
segregation
racism
6
True or False: secret slave churches were known as Invisible Churches.
False
True
7
Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to:
Education
Women's Rights
Prison Reform
Abolition
8
Which of the following was not a way in which slaves resisted slavery.
Running away
Open defiance by refusing to work or hitting their
Paying to be shipped to England
Passively by playing dumb
9
Someone who wanted to get rid of slavery was known as:
A reformist
A missionary
A transcendantalist
An abolitionist
10
True or False: Irish immigrants were subject to American hostility due, in part by, to their religious beliefs.
True
False
11
True or False: One prison reform was that debtors were no longer put in prison.
True
False
12
Which of the following was NOT a problem concerning women's rights?
Women were slaves
Women could not own property
Women could not vote
Women could not practice professions such as medicine or law.
13
Most slaves:
were given compensation for their work
were free to do whatever job they wanted
lived in crowded cabins
were set free at the end of their contract
14
True or False: Slaves who were disobedient were sent to slave breakers who would beat them into submission.
False
True
15
One educational reform in the 1800s was:
None of the above.
The desegregation of schools.
Taxes were raised to fund public schools
SAT Testing
16
Which region (North or South) was characterized by freezing winters and hot summers?
North
South
17
Someone whose wealth comes from industry is known as:
an agrarian
a missionary
an abolitionist
an industrialist
18
True or False: African Americans in the north were a majority and were slaves.
False
True
19
This separated blacks and whites in public areas.
slavery
abolitionism
racism
segregation
20
True or False: One legacy of the Seneca Falls convention was that some states passed more liberal divorce laws.
True
False
21
Which region (north or south) was characterized by wealthy plantation owners and midde class farmers?
South
North
22
Which of the following were major reforms in the 1800s?
School
Women's Rights
Prison
All of the above.
23
In this event, slaves rebelled killing 57 whites. This lead to the passing of a law prohibiting slave education.
The Great Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
The Civil War
24
This invention revolutionized the cotton industry:
the lightbulb
rakes
elctricity
the cotton gin
25
True or False: The clearing away of forests is known as foresting.
False
True
26
Which of the following was NOT an example of slave culture in the 1800s:
Telling Folktales
Singing spirituals
Radio shows
Dancing
27
True or False: One problem with the public school system was that high schools admitted girls.
False
True
28
Which region (north or south) was characterized by transportation by steamboats and railroads?
North
South
29
Which of the following was not an activity that African Americans did on Sundays.
Went to Church
Went fishing
Watched TV
Went hunting
30
Which region (north or south) is characterized by swamps and marshes?
South
North
