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HISTORY 144
Topic 6 Quiz
1) To achieve their goal of bettering society, Progressives relied on all of the following strategies
except…
a. crafting laws against perceived social wrongs.
b. Writing exposes that made the public aware of problems and galvanized their support
for change.
c. Supporting trust-bearing efforts by political leaders
d. Relying on parades, protests, and demonstrations to rally public support for their
initiatives.
e. Relying on the courts to end racism and place limits on the hours women and children
could work.
2) The first major law concerning slavery that was passed in the colonies…
a. Dealt with marriage between whites and non-whites.
b. Stipulated that all African Americans in Virginia could not live free of white control
c. Stated that slaves had to have written permission to leave their plantations.
d. Established color as the defining distinction between indentured servitude and slavery
e. Stated that if the mother was a slave, the child would be also
3) What inspired women like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to start a women’s right
movement?
a. Mott faced discrimination when she attempted to enter the workforce.
b. They had been involved with abolitionism and noticed parallels between women’s lack
of rights and those of African Americans
c. They were angered that the Grimke sisters were chastised for the abolitionism and told
that women’s place is the home.
d. They were both married and saw that marriage laws made women virtual children
e. All of these choices
4) The reform impulse that swept through America in the first half of the nineteenth century
sought improvements in all of the following areas except…
a. Public education
b. Prisons
c. Working conditions
d. Treatment of the mentally ill
e. Slavery
5) Which of the following is not true about the importation of slaves into the Western Hemisphere
in the colonial period?
a. About five million slaves were forcibly brought to the West Indies and Brazil
b. Only about five percent of Africans were shipped to the United States
c. American colonists bought most slaves in the seventeenth century, but increasingly
shied away from the trade as they approached revolution.
d. More than 95 percent of colonial Africans remained slaves for life
HISTORY 144
Topic 6 Quiz
1) To achieve their goal of bettering society, Progressives relied on all of the following strategies
except…
a. crafting laws against perceived social wrongs.
b. Writing exposes that made the public aware of problems and galvanized their support
for change.
c. Supporting trust-bearing efforts by political leaders
d. Relying on parades, protests, and demonstrations to rally public support for their
initiatives.
e. Relying on the courts to end racism and place limits on the hours women and children
could work.
2) The first major law concerning slavery that was passed in the colonies…
a. Dealt with marriage between whites and non-whites.
b. Stipulated that all African Americans in Virginia could not live free of white control
c. Stated that slaves had to have written permission to leave their plantations.
d. Established color as the defining distinction between indentured servitude and slavery
e. Stated that if the mother was a slave, the child would be also
3) What inspired women like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to start a women’s right
movement?
a. Mott faced discrimination when she attempted to enter the workforce.
b. They had been involved with abolitionism and noticed parallels between women’s lack
of rights and those of African Americans
c. They were angered that the Grimke sisters were chastised for the abolitionism and told
that women’s place is the home.
d. They were both married and saw that marriage laws made women virtual children
e. All of these choices
4) The reform impulse that swept through America in the first half of the nineteenth century
sought improvements in all of the following areas except…
a. Public education
b. Prisons
c. Working conditions
d. Treatment of the mentally ill
e. Slavery
5) Which of the following is not true about the importation of slaves into the Western Hemisphere
in the colonial period?
a. About five million slaves were forcibly brought to the West Indies and Brazil
b. Only about five percent of Africans were shipped to the United States
c. American colonists bought most slaves in the seventeenth century, but increasingly
shied away from the trade as they approached revolution.
d. More than 95 percent of colonial Africans remained slaves for life
