CLEP US History II

Answer: B - The women involved in the first wave of the women’s right movement often began their political activism in the abolitionist or temperance movements. The connection between women’s rights and the abolition of slavery (and the movement’s post-Civil War cause of African-American suffrage) were inextricably linked, since both movements pertained to the enfranchisement of minority groups. The temperance movement for the prohibition of alcohol was dominated by women who felt that liquor was a social evil that (among other things) led men to beat women, carouse with prostitutes, and become delinquent in their family responsibilities.