Hurry offering 75 points

1. the textbooks most often used in public schools in the mid-1800s were
a.
mcguffey’s readers.
c.
the new england primer.
b.
the pilgrim’s progress.
d.
the bible.

2. the first american college to accept african americans was
a.
harvard.
c.
oberlin.
b.
dartmouth.
d.
avery.

3. lyman beecher was strongly opposed to
a.
“evils of alcohol”
c.
“evils of no education”
b.
“evils of tenement housing”
d.
all of the above

4. the legislature responded to dorthrea dix’s visit to jails in 1841 by creating special facilities for mentally ill people, separating them from
a.
criminals
c.
child offenders
b.
criminally insane
d.
all of the above

5. the region that maintained the most schools in the early 1800s was
a.
the west.
c.
the middle atlantic states.
b.
the south.
d.
new england.

6. the social reform effort that encouraged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor was the
a.
common-school movement.
c.
transcendentalist movement.
b.
women’s rights movement.
d.
temperance movement.

7. what contribution did dorothea dix make to the social reform movement?
a.
she started a school for the blind.
b.
she established a special facility to treat the mentally ill.
c.
she worked for religious reform.
d.
she sought for academic equality between whites and blacks.

8. who was responsible for starting a school for the blind?
a.
samuel gridley howe
c.
henry highland garnet
b.
james thomas
d.
emma williard

9. william holmes mcguffey was the leading voice for education reform in the mid-1800s. true or false

10. the common-school movement got its name from
a.
providing girls’ schools and boys’ schools with the same books.
b.
building all schools the exact same way.
c.
the effort to have all children, regardless of their class or background, educated in a common place.
d.
educating free african americans in the south just like white children.