Suppose a historian wanted to argue that the enlightenment had a more positive influence on the american revolution than on the french revolution. which statement below would be the strongest evidence for the historian's view?
the french revolution overthrew a monarchy and a social system, while the american revolution only freed a group of colonies.
the american revolution was led by men who admired enlightenment thought, such as thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin.
the american revolution produced a declaration of independence, while the french revolution produced a declaration of the rights of man.
in the french revolution, the will of the people turned away from justice and toward mob violence, fanaticism, and dictatorship.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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