LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Question
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Abolitionist Movement
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Temperance Movement
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Education Movement
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had used to end slavery in Great Britain in the 1830s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -He embraced the women’s rights movement, helped people on the Underground Railroad, and supported anti-slavery political parties. Once an ally of William Lloyd Garrison and his followers, Douglass started to work more closely with Gerrit Smith and John Brown.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were African Americans, slaves who escaped to freedom, abolitionists and supporters of the Union in the Civil War.