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QuizMultiple Choice

Nation Building and Sectionalism — Test

Question 8 • US History

One demand of the abolition movement, which grew out of the Second Great Awakening, was

Answer
A
the immediate freeing of all enslaved people.
B
the gradual freeing of some enslaved people.
C
an increase in the African slave trade.
D
a restoration of the African slave trade.

Explanation

Abolitionists opposed slavery and called for emancipation. Many abolitionists, influenced by the religious reform spirit of the Second Great Awakening, demanded that slavery end immediately rather than freeing enslaved people gradually. The correct choice is “the immediate freeing of all enslaved people.”

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