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Chapter 14: The Age of Reform
      
  1.A community based on a vision of a perfect society was a __________.  
  a.   monastery  
  b.   utopia  
  c.   cooperative  
  d.   kibbutz  
      
  2.__________ helped develop methods to educate people who were hearing impaired.  
  a.   Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe  
  b.   Ralph Waldo Emerson  
  c.   Thomas Gallaudet  
  d.   Mary Lyon  
      
  3.The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was __________.  
  a.   Harriet Beecher Stowe  
  b.   Henry David Thoreau  
  c.   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
  d.   Walt Whitman  
      
  4.Abolitionists wanted to __________.  
  a.   improve prisons  
  b.   provide humane institutions for the mentally handicapped  
  c.   stop the war with Mexico  
  d.   end slavery  
      
  5.The most widely known African American abolitionist was __________.  
  a.   William Lloyd Garrison  
  b.   Elijah Lovejoy  
  c.   Frederick Douglass  
  d.   Angelina Grimke  
      
  6.Most of those who used the Underground Railroad came from __________.  
  a.   the West  
  b.   states between the north and Deep South  
  c.   the Deep South  
  d.   New England  
      
  7.Harriet Tubman is best known for her work with the __________.  
  a.   education reform movement  
  b.   women’s rights movement  
  c.   Temperance movement  
  d.   Underground Railroad  
      
  8.The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was modeled after the __________.  
  a.   Magna Carta  
  b.   Declaration of Independence  
  c.   U.S. Constitution  
  d.   Bill of Rights  
      
  9.The first state to grant women the right to vote was __________.  
  a.   Wyoming  
  b.   Arizona  
  c.   New York  
  d.   North Carolina  
      
  10.Emma Willard and Mary Lyon worked to provide women with more opportunities for __________.  
  a.   property ownership  
  b.   education  
  c.   travel  
  d.   business  

 






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