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Quiz about Antebellum Reforms 18151860
Quiz about Antebellum Reforms 18151860

Antebellum Reforms, 1815-1860 Trivia Quiz


Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, Americans launched a variety of plans to improve society--nay, even perfect it!

A multiple-choice quiz by obiwan04. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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obiwan04
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5 mins
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351,073
Updated
Dec 03 21
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Question 1 of 10
1. Easily the most popular of the reform movements was the effort to suppress alcohol consumption. What was the movement called? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Among anti-alcohol crusaders in the 1830's a fierce debate erupted over whether to replace wine in communion services with which of these? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The most controversial of antebellum reforms was abolition. What were the reformers trying to abolish? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Abolitionists who wanted to use political power to obtain their goal created a new political party in 1840. What was it called? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Another popular reform of the era was the effort to provide better treatment of the mentally ill. Which reformer was most involved in this crusade? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Prison reform emerged during the era with the design to make criminals into model citizens. One reform system, the Philadelphia System, imposed solitary confinement on all prisoners and cut them off from all contact with relatives, friends, etc. Its major rival was a system that called for prisoners to work in prison factories during the day and produce goods that could be sold to defray prison expenses. What was it called? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The anti-alcohol movement received a new burst of energy in the 1840 when an organization made up of former drunkards emerged. With mass meetings where reformed drinkers told the audience about the horrors of alcoholism, this group spread their influence throughout much of the nation during the 1840's. By what name was it known? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. That no alcohol would be manufactured or sold was the goal of prohibitionists who emerged in the 1840s to petition legislatures to pass laws to this effect. Which state took the lead in this new phase of the anti-alcohol crusade? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Efforts to improve the condition of women also surged forward during this era. The most inspiring--and the most controversial--feminist work was published in 1838 and was entitled, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women." Who wrote it? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. The women's rights movement's organizational beginning came in 1848 at this town in New York. What is its name? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Easily the most popular of the reform movements was the effort to suppress alcohol consumption. What was the movement called?

Answer: Temperance movement

Many of the pre-Civil War anti-alcohol reformers merely wanted people to cut back in their consumption--be temperate. The Anti-Saloon League formed in the 1890's to lead the fight for a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
2. Among anti-alcohol crusaders in the 1830's a fierce debate erupted over whether to replace wine in communion services with which of these?

Answer: Water

Abstainers from all alcohol insisted that wine could not be used even in church services, but nonalcoholic grape juice was not available until after the Civil War. To my knowledge, no one ever suggested using milk or coffee in communion!
3. The most controversial of antebellum reforms was abolition. What were the reformers trying to abolish?

Answer: Slavery

Abolitionists not only aroused opposition from Southern slave owners but from many of their Northern neighbors. Elijah Lovejoy, an abolitionist newspaper editor, became a martyr in 1837, and other abolitionists were beaten, spat upon, and had their lives and property threatened in the 1830's.
4. Abolitionists who wanted to use political power to obtain their goal created a new political party in 1840. What was it called?

Answer: Liberty Party

With this action, political abolitionists split from the non-political ones. The latter group, led by William Lloyd Garrison, believed that political action was futile because the Constitution was a proslavery document.
5. Another popular reform of the era was the effort to provide better treatment of the mentally ill. Which reformer was most involved in this crusade?

Answer: Dorothea Dix

Dix made great efforts to convince American people that mental illness was curable. She besieged legislators and philanthropists to build mental asylums and hospitals for treatment.
6. Prison reform emerged during the era with the design to make criminals into model citizens. One reform system, the Philadelphia System, imposed solitary confinement on all prisoners and cut them off from all contact with relatives, friends, etc. Its major rival was a system that called for prisoners to work in prison factories during the day and produce goods that could be sold to defray prison expenses. What was it called?

Answer: Auburn System

The Auburn System became the most popular, especially with legislators looking for a way to pay the costs of building a prison and maintaining one. The Philadelphia System not only cost more to run but had the tendency to drive the prisoners insane with the effects of solitary confinement.
7. The anti-alcohol movement received a new burst of energy in the 1840 when an organization made up of former drunkards emerged. With mass meetings where reformed drinkers told the audience about the horrors of alcoholism, this group spread their influence throughout much of the nation during the 1840's. By what name was it known?

Answer: Washingtonians

The Washingtonians took their name from George Washington because they admired him. Ironically, after Washington left the Presidency he built a whiskey distillery at Mount Vernon.
8. That no alcohol would be manufactured or sold was the goal of prohibitionists who emerged in the 1840s to petition legislatures to pass laws to this effect. Which state took the lead in this new phase of the anti-alcohol crusade?

Answer: Maine

Maine's effort was led by Neal Dow. The first breakthrough came in 1846 when Dow's reformers got the state to prohibit all sales of alcohol in quantities less than 28 gallons! In other words if you wanted a beer you had to buy 28 gallons! In 1851, the Maine group got what they really wanted when the state banned all alcohol sales.
9. Efforts to improve the condition of women also surged forward during this era. The most inspiring--and the most controversial--feminist work was published in 1838 and was entitled, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women." Who wrote it?

Answer: Sarah Grimke

Grimke, along with her sister Angelina, was an abolitionist who was attacked by male abolitionists for having the audacity to speak before an audience with men in attendance. Proper women did not do such scandalous things! In response, her book argued that what was morally right for men to do was what was morally right for women to do. God, she insisted, did not create a two-tiered moral code.

The other answers are names of women who led the women's rights crusade after Grimke's book was published.
10. The women's rights movement's organizational beginning came in 1848 at this town in New York. What is its name?

Answer: Seneca Falls

They held the meeting at Seneca Falls in part because this is where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was living. Stanton was already a major leader in the movement and after the meeting would be joined by her co-reformer and friend, Susan B. Anthony.
Source: Author obiwan04

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