USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What do Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?
A
They were both abolition reformers
B
They were both temperance reformers
C
They were both Manifest Destiny supporters
D
They were both prison reformers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Both escaped from slavery. After escaping, both became major figures in the movement to abolish slavery in the US.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1844, Truth joined a Massachusetts abolitionist organization called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, where she met leading abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and effectively launched her career as an equal rights activist.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war’s outcomes. He recruited African-American men to fight in the U.S. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

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