Chapter 14 test review – 8th
Presidents 37 – 44 – Know the names, order and political party
Answer questions 1 – 7 on a separate sheet of paper and bring in on the day of the test.
1. Which factors increased immigration from Ireland to the United States in the mid-1840s?
2. Give the name of at least one important transcendentalist writer.
3. What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention?
4. How did Dorothea Dix contribute to the prison reform movement?
5. How did the federal government attempt to hinder the efforts of abolitionists?
6. How did William Lloyd Garrison attempt to spread the antislavery message in the United States?
7. In which direction did the Underground Railroad go?
______ 8. One of the benefits of women’s reform work was that
a. some men became involved in the women’s movement.
b. most people began raising money for the women’s movement.
c. more women began educating their children at home.
d. women began controlling their fathers’ property.
______ 9. Which of the following was common in American cities in the mid-1800s?
a. criminal activity
b. public fire departments
c. crowded subways
d. sanitation services
______ 10. What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the United States in the mid - 1840s?
a. potato blight
b. unsafe working conditions
c. religious persecution
d. violent revolution
______ 11. Which of the following is true about women’s rights in the 1800s?
a. Large cities allowed women to vote in local elections.
b. Women could not serve on juries.
c. Women asking for equality were punished under the law.
d. Only married women could manage their own property.
______ 12. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson were
a. founders of the commonschool movement.
b. writers during the Romantic period.
c. creators of transcendentalism.
d. leaders of the Second Great Awakening.
______ 13. Why were many African American schools established in Philadelphia in the mid- 1800s?
a. Of all northern U.S. cities, Philadelphia had the largest African American population.
b. As a center of Quaker influence, Philadelphia strongly supported the education of African American
children.
c. Laws in other northern cities barred freed African Americans from receiving any kind of education.
d. Philadelphia’s citizens believed that establishing African American schools would help the abolitionist
cause.
______ 14. What effect did Nat Turner’s Rebellion of 1831 have on southern society?
a. Many slaveholders freed their slaves.
b. People stopped discussing slavery openly.
c. Mob violence over the slavery issue increased dramatically.
d. More whites began hiding fugitive slaves.
______ 15. The majority of German immigrants who entered the United States in the late
1840s were attracted by
a. the supply of high-paying skilled jobs.
b. economic opportunity and freedom from government control.
c. protection of freedom of religion.
d. political refuge and support for revolutionaries at home.
______ 16. Which of these ideas did religious leader Charles Grandison Finney express?
a. Doing good deeds is not proof of faith.
b. Religious leaders alone can be free from sin.
c. Men are closer to God than women.
d. Salvation is in the hands of the individual.
______ 17. Which of these statements best expresses the main idea of Sojourner Truth’s speech given at
a women’s rights convention in 1851?
“That man over here says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to
have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me
any best place . . . Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and . . . no man could head [outwork] me.
And ain’t I a woman?”
—Sojourner Truth, quoted in A History of Women in America by Carol Hymowitz and Michaele
Weissman
a. Women should not be thought of as weaker than men and they deserve equality.
b. African American women and white women should be considered equals.
c. Women should use any means necessary to obtain equal rights in America.
d. African American rights should be addressed by the government before women’s rights.
Fill in the blanks
18. Reformer _______________ spoke to the state legislature of Massachusetts about the fact that the
mentally ill were housed with criminals in the state’s prison system. (Dorothea Dix/Margaret Fuller)
19. The ___________________ was an organization that fought for the immediate emancipation of
slaves and for racial equality for African Americans living in the United States. (American Anti-Slavery
Society/Know-Nothing Party)
20. The growth of industry and cities in the United States led to the development of a new social class
called the __________________ . (middle class/working class)
21. The ___________________ was a movement of Christian renewal that swept through the United
States during the 1790s and early 1800s. (Great Awakening/Second Great Awakening)
22. The ___________________ was a document written by women’s rights activists that described their
beliefs about social injustice toward women. (Declaration of the Rights of Women/Declaration of
Sentiments)
Match the statement to the letter below
______ 23. groups of people who joined together to try to form a perfect society
______ 24. women’s rights activist who was one of them organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention
______ 25. Romantic poet who praised American individualism and democracy
______ 26. poorly designed apartment buildings that were home to large numbers of people
______ 27. escaped slave who succeeded in leading over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground
Railroad
______ 28. organization designed to help fugitive slaves escape to the North
______ 29. philosophical movement that stressed them belief that people could rise above material
things in life
______ 30. first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States
______ 31. started an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut
______ 32. escaped slave whose autobiographies were intended to expose the injustices of slavery
a. utopian communities
b. Walt Whitman
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
e. Seneca Falls Convention
f. Catharine Beecher
g. Underground Railroad
h. tenements
i. Harriet Tubman
j. transcendentalism
k. Horace Mann
l. Romanticism