Out of the Abolitionist Movement, Temperance Movement, and Women's Rights Movement, why would one say the Abolitionist Movement was the most...

Out of the
three movements you list, the abolitionist movement achieved the fastest, longest-lasting
results. The abolitionist movement launched an entire political movement, the Free-Soil Party.
This group would be made of Whigs who did not want to sponsor pro-slavery candidates. The
Free-Soil Party would then become the Republican Party and would field viable candidates for
national and state office.

The Temperance movement would advance whenever the
United States would go through a period of religious revival or anti-immigrant sentiment. The
Temperance Movement would be at its height with the Volstead Act but the law would fail due to
lack of governmental support and the lack of public will to enforce it. The Temperance movement
would fail in its effort to end alcohol consumption but it would gain new life in America's War
on Drugs, though this appears to be a losing battle as the United States still has difficulty
limiting its use of illicit drugs.

The Women's Rights movement was tied to
the abolitionist movement with many of the same spokespeople before the Civil War. After the
Thirteenth Amendment, the movement for female suffrage fell by the wayside except for efforts in
the West where the territories were trying to lure families to settle in the region.

The Women's Rights movement gained new ground during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
as more women championed social causes. Women gained the right to vote with the Nineteenth
Amendment after women took on greater responsibilities outside the home with WWI. The Women's
Rights movement still has other causes such as reproductive heath and equal pay. Candidates
often use women's rights as an attempt to gain a bloc of women's votes.