Chapter 15 The Spirit of Reform   1. By the 1820s, American writers and artists had adopted themes related to ____________     A) "The Prairies."     B) people and scenes uniquely American.     C) European characters and settings.     D) an antislavery movement.   2. Rip Van Winkle was a Washington Irving fictional character who ____________     A) explored Puritan values of good and evil.     B) slept through the American Revolution.     C) braved the American frontier and wore deerskin leggings.     D) arrived in town to teach school but left under mysterious circumstances.   3. Herman Melville's great American novel that uses a whale hunt to explore materialism and idealism is called ____________     A) the Sketch Book.     B) The Scarlet Letter.     C) The Deerslayer.     D) Moby Dick.   4. Reforms in education were spurred by the increase in voters and the ____________     A) desire to train professional women.     B) sectional differences among schools.     C) arrival of immigrants.     D) needs of African Americans.   5. Common, or free public, schools were schools supported by ____________     A) taxes.     B) private societies.     C) land grants.     D) tuition.   6. The leader of the common school movement was ____________     A) Samuel Gridley Howe.     B) Horace Mann.     C) Emma Willard.     D) Elizabeth Blackwell.   7. The temperance movement used all the following tactics EXCEPT ____________     A) singing songs.     B) holding meetings.     C) communal living.     D) distributing pamphlets.   8. Many Americans throughout the nation were moved to work for social reform by the message of the ____________     A) Shakers.     B) Second Great Awakening.     C) American Temperance Society.     D) Prison Discipline Society.   9. The goal of socialism was to do away with ____________     A) poverty and inequality.     B) juvenile delinquency.     C) communal living.     D) prohibition laws.   10. The American Colonization Society attempted to set up a colony in western Africa for ____________     A) escaped slaves.     B) abolitionists.     C) free African Americans.     D) enslaved African Americans.   11. The early African American abolitionist who called on enslaved men and women to fight for their freedom was ____________     A) Wendell Phillips.     B) David Walker.     C) John Russwurm.     D) Samuel Cornish.   12. Boston abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founded an antislavery newspaper called ____________     A) the Alton Observer.     B) Freedom's Journal.     C) the North Star.     D) The Liberator.   13. The abolitionist societies of the 1830s differed from earlier organizations because they ____________     A) founded the Underground Railroad.     B) demanded immediate and unconditional emancipation.     C) offered their help to free African Americans.     D) exposed the horrors of slavery and criticized slaveholders.   14. In 1840, Lucretia Coffin Mott shared a vow to form a society to fight for women's rights with ____________     A) Susan B. Anthony.     B) Lucy Stone.     C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.     D) Sarah Grimké.   15. The beginning of an organized women's rights movement took place at the ____________     A) American Anti-Slavery Society.     B) World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.     C) Seneca Falls Convention in New York.     D) graduation ceremonies of Oberlin College in Ohio.