Why Did Female Activists Feel the Need to Call for a Women's

question 21

Multiple Choice

Why did female activists feel the need to call for a women's rights convention in 1848?

• A) Many of them had faced discrimination within other social reform groups.
• B) They felt the market revolution required a campaign to promote women's economic rights.
• C) They wanted to publicize a "women's position" on the issue of abolition.
• D) A series of court decisions had placed dangerous restrictions on the legal rights of married women.

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