HIS 144 Questions and answers, latest update. VERIFIED.

HIS 144 Questions and answers, latest update. VERIFIED. Progressives successfully replaced the cronyism of political machines with - - Why did women become active in the temperance movement? - -They saw excessive drinking as leading to the decline of family life. The first target of Progressive reform was - -the cities. To achieve their goal of bettering society, Progressives relied on all of the following strategies except - -relying on parades, protests and demonstrations to rally public support for their initiatives. What inspired women like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to start a women's rights movement? - -They had been involved with abolitionism and noticed parallels between women's lack of rights and those of African Americans. The reform impulse that swept through America in the first half of the nineteenth century sought improvements in all of the following areas except - -