Question

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were involved in which reform movement before they became involved in the women's rights movement?
A. the transcendentalist movement
B. the abolitionist movement
OC. the expansionist movement
OD. the temperance movement

Answer 1

B. the abolitionist movement

Both Stanton and Mott were active abolitionists; their experiences in anti‑slavery organizing (including being barred from full participation at an 1840 anti‑slavery convention) helped spur their work for women's rights.