PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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Many workers feared the newly freed slaves would accept lower paying factory jobs.
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Many whited did not want African Americans to have the same rights.
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Many saw slavery as necessary for the U.S. economy to thrive.
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ALL of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people, which eventually spread to eradicate slavery from the entire world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Growing opposition to slavery was not always grounded in antislavery or abolitionist sentiment; it was spurred by economic concerns, anxieties over blacks as equals, and fear of slave revolts. Source: William Lloyd Garrison, “Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, ” 1833.