Chapter 15 Test

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  • 1. 

    Who was the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

    • A.

      William Lloyd Garrison

    • B.

      Elijah Lovejoy

    • C.

      Harriet Tubman

    • D.

      Wendell Phillips

    Correct Answer
    C. Harriet Tubman
  • 2. 

    Who was the abolitionist murdered in the North?

    • A.

      Elijah Lovejoy

    • B.

      Frederick Douglass

    • C.

      Wendell Phillips

    • D.

      William Lloyd Garrison

    Correct Answer
    A. Elijah Lovejoy
  • 3. 

    By  1840 the number of enslaved persons in the U.S. was nearly?

    • A.

      2,500

    • B.

      25,000

    • C.

      25 million

    • D.

      2.5 million

    Correct Answer
    D. 2.5 million
  • 4. 

    Name the religious group that opposed slavery?

    • A.

      Baptists

    • B.

      Quakers

    • C.

      Methodist

    • D.

      Catholics

    Correct Answer
    B. Quakers
  • 5. 

    The American Colonization Society set up a colony for African Americans in?

    • A.

      Libya

    • B.

      Tunisia

    • C.

      Cameroon

    • D.

      Liberia

    Correct Answer
    D. Liberia
  • 6. 

    One group of Northerners who disapproved of the abolition movement was?

    • A.

      Mill owners

    • B.

      Farm owners

    • C.

      Mine owners

    • D.

      Publishers

    Correct Answer
    A. Mill owners
  • 7. 

    David Walker wrote a pamphlet addressed to?

    • A.

      Slaveholders

    • B.

      Quakers

    • C.

      Congress

    • D.

      Enslaved persons

    Correct Answer
    D. Enslaved persons
  • 8. 

    Who demanded suffrage for women at Senecca Falls?

    • A.

      Margaret Fuller

    • B.

      Susan B. Anthony

    • C.

      Lucy Stone

    • D.

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Correct Answer
    D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • 9. 

    Who wrote the book:  Woman in the Nineteenth Century?

    • A.

      Margaret Fuller

    • B.

      Susan B. Anthony

    • C.

      Sojourner Truth

    • D.

      Lucy Stone

    Correct Answer
    A. Margaret Fuller
  • 10. 

    Name the former slave who spoke against slavery?

    • A.

      Lucy Stone

    • B.

      Sojourner Truth

    • C.

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    • D.

      Margaret Fuller

    Correct Answer
    B. Sojourner Truth
  • 11. 

    Who was denied the opportunity to speak at college graduation?

    • A.

      Margaret Fuller

    • B.

      Susan B. Anthony

    • C.

      Lucy Stone

    • D.

      Sojourner Truth

    Correct Answer
    C. Lucy Stone
  • 12. 

    Some people questioned the right of Angelina and Sarah Grimke to?

    • A.

      Oppose slavery

    • B.

      Work outside the home

    • C.

      Write editorials

    • D.

      Speak in public

    Correct Answer
    D. Speak in public
  • 13. 

    In 1840 the World Anti-Slavery Convention was held in?

    • A.

      London

    • B.

      New York

    • C.

      Chicago

    • D.

      Paris

    Correct Answer
    A. London
  • 14. 

    In 1848 the first convention was held for?

    • A.

      Abolition

    • B.

      Women's rights

    • C.

      Union members

    • D.

      African Americans

    Correct Answer
    B. Women's rights
  • 15. 

    In the 1800's, women could not?

    • A.

      Publish books

    • B.

      Meet publicly

    • C.

      Hold jobs

    • D.

      Vote

    Correct Answer
    D. Vote
  • 16. 

    Many African American women did not fight for women's rights because they gave their attention to?

    • A.

      The temperance movement

    • B.

      Abolition

    • C.

      Prohibition

    • D.

      Religion

    Correct Answer
    B. Abolition
  • 17. 

    The Sketch book was  a book of tales written by?

    • A.

      James Fenimore

    • B.

      Washington Irving

    • C.

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • D.

      Herman Melville

    Correct Answer
    B. Washington Irving
  • 18. 

    Edgar Allen Poe's  writing?

    • A.

      Reeked of death, evil and horror

    • B.

      Was happy poems about life

    • C.

      Was about woman's rights

    • D.

      Was about animals

    Correct Answer
    A. Reeked of death, evil and horror
  • 19. 

    This writer moved into a small cabin at Walden pond so he could write about nature?

    • A.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • B.

      William Wells Brown

    • C.

      Henry David Thoreau

    • D.

      Washington Irving

    Correct Answer
    C. Henry David Thoreau
  • 20. 

    Wrote the first published fiction by an African American?

    • A.

      Edgar Allen Poe

    • B.

      Margaret Fuller

    • C.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • D.

      William Wells Brown

    Correct Answer
    D. William Wells Brown
  • 21. 

    Who headed the campaign for common schools and had concerns about poor children getting an education?

    • A.

      Horace Mann

    • B.

      Samuel Gridley

    • C.

      Thomas Gallaudet

    • D.

      Emma Willard

    Correct Answer
    A. Horace Mann
  • 22. 

    What type of school did Prudence Crandall open in Connecticut?

    • A.

      An all boys school

    • B.

      An all boys school for African Americans

    • C.

      A girls school for African Americans

    • D.

      a public school

    Correct Answer
    C. A girls school for African Americans
  • 23. 

    Who spoke in front of congress to change the way mentally ill patients were treated in jails?

    • A.

      Josiah Quincy

    • B.

      Robert Owen

    • C.

      Dorothea Dix

    • D.

      John Cocke

    Correct Answer
    C. Dorothea Dix
  • 24. 

    What was a House of Refuge?

    • A.

      A jail for everyone

    • B.

      A jail for children

    • C.

      A jail for mentally ill

    Correct Answer
    B. A jail for children
  • 25. 

    What does the term prohibition mean?

    • A.

      Ban of liquor

    • B.

      A community

    • C.

      A social gathering

    Correct Answer
    A. Ban of liquor
  • 26. 

    What terms means a community of people who own all property together, not as individuals?

    • A.

      Prohibition

    • B.

      Second great awakening

    • C.

      Socialism

    • D.

      Community groups

    Correct Answer
    C. Socialism

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