APUSH - Reformers Quiz

Amelia Bloomer

Wore pantaloons when it wasn’t acceptable

Angelina Grimke

Abolitionist/women’s rights reformer who married Theodore Dwight Weld

Brigham Young

Mormon leader who took over partway through the journey to Utah

Catherine Beecher

Pushed for kindergarten and callisthenic exercises in school

Charles Grandison Finney

Second Great Awakening minister in the “Burned Over” District

Dorothea Dix

Helped advocate for the mentally ill

Edgar Allen Poe

Famous American author who wrote “The Raven” and The Tell-Tale Heart

Elizabeth Blackwell

First female doctor

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Led the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

Emma Willard

Created a female seminary in Troy, NY

Frederick Church

One of the Hudson River School artists

Frederick Douglass

Former slave who published “The North Star”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Tubman

Conductor of the Underground Railroad who escaped from slavery

Henry David Thoreau

Transcendentalist who wrote “Civil Disobedience”

Horace Mann

Father of compulsory education

John Brown

Radical abolitionist leader who led the Harpers Ferry Raid and was hung

John Humpfrey Noyes

Leader of the Oneida Community “perfectionists”

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormons who was killed

Lucretia Mott

Quaker who helped to lead the Seneca Falls Convention

Lucy Stone

Kept her maiden name when she got married

Mary Lyon

Founder of Mount Holyoke

Mother Ann Lee

Leader of the Shakers

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wrote The Scarlett Letter about Puritan Times

Noah Webster

Person who is famous for creating a dictionary

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalist who wrote Nature

Robert Owen

Leader of the utopian New Harmony settlement that failed

Sarah Grimke

Abolitionist/women’s rights leader who responded to the “Pastoral Letter”

Sojourner Truth

Made the famous “Ain’t I A Woman” speech

Susan B. Anthony

Person who joined the women’s rights movement and voted illegally

Theodore Dwight Weld

Wrote American Slavery As it Is, married Angelina Grimke

Thomas Cole

One of the Hudson River artists

Washington Irving

Wrote “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

William Holmes McGuffey

Had a series of textbooks named after him

William Lloyd Garrison

Wanted immediate emancipation without compensation