I think it's d sorry if i'm wrong
Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union.
The reason why reformers connect the abolition and women's rights issues is that the fight for the American African women's rights had also led and influenced women abolitionist to fight for their own rights too. These reformers are people who would want to bring gradual change in the society.
They worked there and couldn’t really work anywhere else bc that’s “all they were good at”