What Was One Remarkable Aspect of Women's Involvement in the Antebellum

question 11

Multiple Choice

What was one remarkable aspect of women's involvement in the antebellum reform movement?

• A) Women's reform societies were in most places racially integrated.
• B) Women and men first found common ground in shared leadership of reform societies.
• C) As many as 10 percent of women in the Northeast were involved in reform groups.
• D) A high percentage of southern white women participated in antislavery activism.

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