USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is a term used to describe someone who opposed slavery.
A
Entrepreneur
B
Suffragist
C
Abolitionist
D
A good person
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The opposite of an abolitionist is, quite simply, an antiabolitionist. Antiabolitionists were most prevalent in the South, where millions of slaves powered the cash-crop economy, and these pro-slavery advocates worried about losing their way of life.

Detailed explanation-3: -activist, advocate, opponent, revolutionary.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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