Which word means someone who wanted to end slavery, especially in the United States before the Civil War-when owning slaves was common practice.

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Which word means “someone who wanted to end slavery, especially in the United States before the Civil War-when owning slaves was common practice.”

A	amendment
B	abolitionist
C	suffragist
D	citizen participation

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -An abolitionist was someone who wanted to end slavery, especially in the United States before the Civil War-when owning slaves was common practice.

Detailed explanation-2: -An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century. More specifically, these individuals sought the immediate and full emancipation of all enslaved people.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

Detailed explanation-4: -: a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery.

Detailed explanation-5: -They will be introduced to the following key figures: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln.

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USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

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