Quiz Me! - Events: Reform Movements Test your knowledge about events in the Reform Movements era. 1 / 10 What was the main goal of the temperance movement? To prevent the effects alcohol abuse by banning alcohol To ensure ensure equal rights for women including the vote To protect prisoners who suffered from mental illness To protect lands from being taken from indigenous tribes 2 / 10 Which type of reformers used the strategies listed above? Education Abolition Labor Temperance 3 / 10 What goals did labor reformers hope to achieve? Health care for on the job injuries Safer working conditions and higher wages Protection for migrant agricultural workers Increase immigration to add to the labor force 4 / 10 In addition to writing about the need for social reform and encouraging individuals to improve society what was another goal of the transcendentalist writers? Joining with others’ efforts to reform government Seeking to preserve the beauty in nature Improving suffrage opportunities for all races and genders Striving to obtain material wealth to contribute when needed 5 / 10 What condition were temperance reformers trying to prevent? Violence among manufacturers of alcoholic beverages Broken families and unproductive workers Cruel conditions for people with mental illness in prisons Children working rather than attending school 6 / 10 What conditions prompted the need for Horace Mann’s reforms? Laborers worked long hours in unsafe conditions in mines and factories. Prisoners suffered from overcrowding, unfair imprisonment and cruel punishments. Most children did not attend school and teachers were poorly trained. Alcohol abuse led to domestic violence against women and children. 7 / 10 What effect did the individuals and their accomplishments listed above have on the United States? They reminded Americans about the importance of relying on nature. They documented the natural beauty of America. They turned Americans’ attention away from America’s problems. They contributed to the cultural identity of the United States. 8 / 10 Which artists documented the natural beauty of America with vast painted landscapes? John James Audubon and Frederick Douglass Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman and Harriet Beecher Stowe Thomas Cole and Asher Durand 9 / 10 Which inventor and invention best completes the two question marks on the chart? Charles Goodyear and steam engine Samuel Colt and galvanized rubber Samuel Morse and factory system Samuel Morse and interchangeable parts 10 / 10 Which of the following describes a reform Dorothea Dix hoped to achieve? Stop imprisoning debtors and the mentally ill Abolish the use of capital punishment in the United States Improve the education system Abolish slavery throughout the United States Your score is Restart quiz