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  • 2. 

    What does the term prohibition mean?

    • Ban of liquor

    • A community

    • A social gathering

    Correct Answer
    A. Ban of liquor
  • 3. 

    Who was the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

    • William Lloyd Garrison

    • Elijah Lovejoy

    • Harriet Tubman

    • Wendell Phillips

    Correct Answer
    A. Harriet Tubman
  • 4. 

    In the 1800's, women could not?

    • Publish books

    • Meet publicly

    • Hold jobs

    • Vote

    Correct Answer
    A. Vote
  • 5. 

    Edgar Allen Poe's  writing?

    • Reeked of death, evil and horror

    • Was happy poems about life

    • Was about woman's rights

    • Was about animals

    Correct Answer
    A. Reeked of death, evil and horror
  • 6. 

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

    • Horace Mann

    • Samuel Gridley

    • Thomas Gallaudet

    • Emma Willard

    Correct Answer
    A. Horace Mann
  • 7. 

    In 1848 the first convention was held for?

    • Abolition

    • Women's rights

    • Union members

    • African Americans

    Correct Answer
    A. Women's rights
  • 8. 

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

    • Prohibition

    • Second great awakening

    • Socialism

    • Community groups

    Correct Answer
    A. Socialism
  • 9. 

    Name the former slave who spoke against slavery?

    • Lucy Stone

    • Sojourner Truth

    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    • Margaret Fuller

    Correct Answer
    A. Sojourner Truth
  • 10. 

    Who wrote the book:  Woman in the Nineteenth Century?

    • Margaret Fuller

    • Susan B. Anthony

    • Sojourner Truth

    • Lucy Stone

    Correct Answer
    A. Margaret Fuller
  • 11. 

    What was a House of Refuge?

    • A jail for everyone

    • A jail for children

    • A jail for mentally ill

    Correct Answer
    A. A jail for children
  • 12. 

    Name the religious group that opposed slavery?

    • Baptists

    • Quakers

    • Methodist

    • Catholics

    Correct Answer
    A. Quakers
  • 13. 

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

    • Oppose slavery

    • Work outside the home

    • Write editorials

    • Speak in public

    Correct Answer
    A. Speak in public
  • 14. 

    The Sketch book was  a book of tales written by?

    • James Fenimore

    • Washington Irving

    • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Herman Melville

    Correct Answer
    A. Washington Irving
  • 15. 

    What type of school did Prudence Crandall open in Connecticut?

    • An all boys school

    • An all boys school for African Americans

    • A girls school for African Americans

    • a public school

    Correct Answer
    A. A girls school for African Americans
  • 16. 

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

    • Libya

    • Tunisia

    • Cameroon

    • Liberia

    Correct Answer
    A. Liberia
  • 17. 

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

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • William Wells Brown

    • Henry David Thoreau

    • Washington Irving

    Correct Answer
    A. Henry David Thoreau
  • 18. 

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

    • London

    • New York

    • Chicago

    • Paris

    Correct Answer
    A. London
  • 19. 

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

    • 2,500

    • 25,000

    • 25 million

    • 2.5 million

    Correct Answer
    A. 2.5 million
  • 20. 

    Wrote the first published fiction by an African American?

    • Edgar Allen Poe

    • Margaret Fuller

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • William Wells Brown

    Correct Answer
    A. William Wells Brown
  • 21. 

    Who was denied the opportunity to speak at college graduation?

    • Margaret Fuller

    • Susan B. Anthony

    • Lucy Stone

    • Sojourner Truth

    Correct Answer
    A. Lucy Stone
  • 22. 

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

    • The temperance movement

    • Abolition

    • Prohibition

    • Religion

    Correct Answer
    A. Abolition
  • 23. 

    David Walker wrote a pamphlet addressed to?

    • Slaveholders

    • Quakers

    • Congress

    • Enslaved persons

    Correct Answer
    A. Enslaved persons
  • 24. 

    Who demanded suffrage for women at Senecca Falls?

    • Margaret Fuller

    • Susan B. Anthony

    • Lucy Stone

    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Correct Answer
    A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • 25. 

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

    • Mill owners

    • Farm owners

    • Mine owners

    • Publishers

    Correct Answer
    A. Mill owners
  • 26. 

    Who was the abolitionist murdered in the North?

    • Elijah Lovejoy

    • Frederick Douglass

    • Wendell Phillips

    • William Lloyd Garrison

    Correct Answer
    A. Elijah Lovejoy

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