Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 11

Instructions

This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click “yes” for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and “no” for those that do not.

Conclusion A

By denying the legitimacy of fundamental American institutions such as the U.S. Constitution and the mainstream churches, radical abolitionists sought to achieve immediate and uncompensated emancipation not through the formal political system but through efforts to persuade whites everywhere to condemn slavery’s existence and halt its spread.

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Conclusion B

By the 1840s, many abolitionists broke with William Lloyd Garrison’s interpretation of the Constitution and his American Anti-Slavery Society and promoted efforts to achieve abolition in the United States through the realm of formal politics.

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Conclusion C

Abolitionists’ debates about how best to achieve the end of slavery in the United States created dissent and division within individual organizations, like the American Anti-Slavery Society, but the resulting schisms also created new and varied organizations that could attract more Americans to the cause.

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