Name
Class
Date
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New Movements in America
Section 1
MULTIPLE CHOICE For each of the following, write the letter of the
best choice in the space provided.
______ 4. The new social class that
______ 1. Where did the millions of
arose in the mid-1800s that
was neither poor nor wealthy
was known as which of the
following?
a. Know-Nothings
b. nativists
c. middle class
d. lower class
immigrants that settled in
the U.S. in the 19th century
come from?
a. Asia
b. Europe
c. South America
d. Australia
______ 2. Where did most of the Irish
______ 5. Many immigrants lived in
immigrants settle?
a. the Northeast
b. the mid-Atlantic
c. the South
d. the Midwest
dirty, overcrowded, and
unsafe buildings known
by which of the following
terms?
a. tenements
b. condos
c. duplexes
d. townhomes
______ 3. What were the Americans
who opposed immigration
called?
a. politicians
b. citizens
c. migrants
d. nativists
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Class
Date
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New Movements in America
Section 2
MATCHING In the space provided, write the letter of the term or person
that matches that description. Some answers will not be used.
______ 1. characterized by the belief that people can
rise above material things in life
______ 2. wrote the essay “Self-Reliance” in 1841
______ 3. edited the famous transcendentalist pub-
a. Billy Budd
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Henry Wadsworth
lication The Dial
______ 4. attempted to form a perfect society
______ 5. wrote the novel The Scarlet Letter in the
1800s
Longfellow
e. John Whittier
f. Margaret Fuller
______ 6. Authored by Herman Melville, it is one of
the finest American novels ever written.
______ 7. author of the haunting poem, “The Raven”
______ 8. Most of her short stories were published
after her death.
g. Moby-Dick
h. Nathaniel Hawthorne
i. Ralph Waldo Emerson
j. traditions
______ 9. His story-poems became favorites in many
American households.
______ 10. praised both American individualism and
democracy in his simple unrhymed poetry
k. transcendentalism
l. utopian communities
m. Walt Whitman
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Name
Class
Date
Section Quiz
New Movements in America
Section 3
FILL IN THE BLANK For each of the following statements, fill in the
blank with the appropriate word, phrase, or name.
1. The
was a movement of Christian renewal in the
1790s and early 1800s.
2. After experiencing a dramatic conversion in 1821,
left
his career as a lawyer and began preaching.
3.
sought to prevent religious revival meetings from
being held in the city of Boston.
4. The effort to get people to exercise self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor is
referred to historically as the
.
5.
was a middle-class reformer who helped to improve
the living conditions of mentally ill patients nationwide.
6.
offered prisoners an education so that they could
lead more productive lives upon their release.
7. People in the
movement wanted all children taught in
a common place, regardless of background.
8.
opened the Perkins School for the Blind in 1831.
9.
started an all-female academy in Hartford,
Connecticut.
10. In 1835
became the first college to accept African
Americans.
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Section 4
TRUE/FALSE Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false. If false
explain why.
______ 1. “Abolitionist,” as a term used in the debate over slavery in America, refers
to an individual who was in favor of ending the practice.
______ 2. Antislavery reformers agreed on how much equality African Americans
should have.
______ 3. Abolitionists found many ways to further their cause.
______ 4. Free African Americans, former slaves, and a few white abolitionists cre-
ated what became known as the Underground Railroad.
______ 5. Because the North was the center of the abolitionist movement, all north-
erners were abolitionists.
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Date
Section Quiz
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Section 5
MULTIPLE CHOICE For each of the following, write the letter of the
best choice in the space provided.
______ 1. She published Letters on the
______ 4. As a well-known spokes-
Equality of the Sexes and the
Condition of Women.
a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b. Lucy Stone
c. Sarah Grimké
d. Susan B. Anthony
person for the Anti-Slavery
Society, she was once
referred to as “the first who
really stirred the nation’s
heart on the subject of women’s wrongs.”
a. Lucy Stone
b. Sojourner Truth
c. Susan B. Anthony
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
______ 2. Born Isabella Baumfree,
she later took a name that
reflected her mission in life.
a. Lucretia Mott
b. Susan B. Anthony
c. Lucy Stone
d. Sojourner Truth
______ 5. New York finally gave mar-
ried women ownership of
their wages and property due
largely to the efforts of this
woman.
a. Sarah Grimké
b. Susan B. Anthony
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Lucy Stone
______ 3. This was the first public
meeting about women’s
rights held in the United
States.
a. World’s Anti-Slavery
Convention
b. Seneca Falls Convention
c. American Women’s Rights
Convention
d. Declaration of Sentiments
Union
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