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Lesson 18 - O'Dell
Student-generated test questions for Lesson 18 (An Era of Reform)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What made the Second Great Awakening appeal to people? (Sec. 1) | You can be forgiven for your sins. (Sec. 1) |
| What was the leader of the movement? (Sec. 1) | Charles G. Finney (Sec. 1) |
| Who was the central figure in the movement of transcendentalism? (Sec. 1) | Ralph Waldo Emerson (Sec. 1) |
| What is "transcendentalism?" (Sec. 1) | A philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond (Sec. 1) |
| What were model communities? (Sec. 1) | A community of people shared their labor of supporting themselves by farming, teaching, and making clothes (Sec. 1) |
| What was Dorothea Dix's goal? (Sec. 2) | She wanted to improve conditions for the prisoners and the mentally ill. (Sec. 2) |
| What was Dorothea Dix's legacy? (Sec. 2) | Changing the way people looked at mentally ill and improving conditions for the prisoners. (Sec. 2) |
| What couldn't everybody send people to the private hospital for the mentally ill in Massachusetts? (Sec. 2) | Only the wealthy could afford it. (Sec. 2) |
| What did Dorothea Dix witness that made her believe that the conditions needed to change. (Sec. 2) | She went and taught Sunday school at a jail and noticed that they were being treated harshly. (Sec. 2) |
| Where did she send her reports of the prisons? (Sec. 2) | She sent the reports to the Massachusetts legislature. (Sec. 2) |
| Who was the father of the American public schools? (Sec. 3) | Horace Mann (Sec. 3) |
| How did citizens in Massachusetts respond to Mann's message? (Sec. 3) | They voted to taxes to build better schools and provide teachers with a higher salary. (Sec. 3) |
| Who mainly attended public schools? (Sec. 3) | Most white children, especially boys. (Sec. 3) |
| What were the public schools like for children? (Sec. 3) | Those who attended usually had overcrowded classrooms and poorly trained teachers. (Sec. 3) |
| What did Horace Mann realize in 1850? (Sec. 3) | Much more needed to be done to increase education opportunities for women and Africa Americans. (Sec. 3) |
| What was the name of the newspaper created by William Lloyd Garrison? (Sec. 4) | The Liberator. (Sec. 4) |
| Who were the people that supported ending slavery? (Sec. 4) | Abolitionists (Sec. 4) |
| Although slavery had ended in the north why did northerners still accept it? (Sec. 4) | The need for cotton (Sec. 4) |
| Who were two important former slaves that became abolitionists after leaving the South? (Sec. 4) | Fredrick Douglass and Sojourner Truth (Sec. 4) |
| Which two former slave holding sisters became abolitionists? (Sec. 4) | Sarah and Angelina Grimke (Sec. 4) |
| Who were the two important ladies for women's right? (Sec. 5) | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Sec. 5) |
| Why did men have to give the speeches? (Sec. 5) | Schools didn't allow women to speak in public. (Sec. 5) |
| How were women treated by men? (Sec. 5) | They were silenced and sometimes beaten. (Sec. 5) |
| Who attended the Seneca Falls Conventions? (Sec. 5) | Abolitionist, Quakers, and other reformers. (Sec. 5) |
| What did Fredrick Douglass do to help women gain the right to vote? (Sec. 5) | He argued that if black people had the right to vote so should women. (Sec. 5) |
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