chapter 6 lesson 3 & 4

Question 1

This person worked to improved treatment of the mentally ill when they found them imprisoned even when they had done no crime.

Answer 1

Dorothea Dix

Question 2

This person was instrumental in establishing benevolent societies that sought to combat social problems.

Answer 2

Lyman Beecher

Question 3

This was a movement that started due to reformers arguing that excessive alcohol was the main cause of crime, disorder, and poverty.

Answer 3

Temperance Movement

Question 4

This was a choice that local governments had on allowing or outlawing the sale of liquor.

Answer 4

local option

Question 5

These were constructed and concentrated on rehabilitation. These places used solitary confinement and silence on work crews.

Answer 5

Penitentiaries

Question 6

This person was the President of Massachusetts Senate and the key leader in education.

Answer 6

Horace Mann

Question 7

What all did Horace Mann introduce?

Answer 7

• state board of education
• double teacher salaries
• 50 new high schools
• lengthened school year
• new curriculum and separation of grades

Question 8

This person was an early pioneer in women’s education. Their school covered the usual subjects for women like cooking and etiquette, but also academics.

Answer 8

Emma Willard

Question 9

This person opened Mount Holvoke Females Seminary, which was the first institution of higher education for women only.

Answer 9

Mary Lyon

Question 10

This person became the first female doctor in the US or Europe.

Answer 10

Elisabeth Blackwell

Question 11

These people were the main leaders of the Seneca Falls Convention.

Answer 11

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 12

What did the Seneca Falls Convention accomplish?

Answer 12

beginning of the women’s movement and put on the right track for securing right to vote

Question 13

This was a proposed gradual end to slavery that would stop new slaves from being imported and phase out slavery in the south from top to bottom.

Answer 13

Gradualism

Question 14

These people wanted to acquire land in West Africa. They established Liberia for former slaves.

Answer 14

American Colonization Society

Question 15

This person was the first well-known abolitionist that wrote “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.” They advocated kill or be killed.

Answer 15

David Walker

Question 16

This person was the most influential

Question 17

This person was the most influential abolitionist and advocated immediate uncompensated emancipation (freeing of all enslaved people). They were the editor of the “Liberator.”

Answer 17

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 18

This person was the most prominent African American abolitionist. They were born a slave and eventually escaped to buy their freedom.

Answer 18

Frederick Douglass

Question 19

This person was also an important African American abolitionist that spoke against slavery and for women’s rights.

Answer 19

Sojourner Truth

Question 20

Why did some Northerners oppose extreme abolitionism?

Answer 20

It was seen as a threat to the existing social system, gave worry that it would produce a war between North and South (aged well), and thought the South’s economy would collapse.

Question 21

This person was killed trying to save his printing press from a mob.

Answer 21

Elijah Lovejoy

Question 22

How did Southerners respond to criticism of their “peculiar institution?”

Answer 22

They defended slavery more.

Question 23

This was a law passed by Southern Congressmen that prohibited the debate on abolitionist petitions.

Answer 23

gag rule