It prevented slaves from learning how to read and write. It also made it scary for them to escape because they allowed slave owners to whip them or hang them for trying to escape or committing small or big crimes.
Many nations had already abolished slavery.
Let me know if you want to know why.
cause: 70,000 known members of the communist party in America
Effect : Attorney general appointed J. Edgar Hoover to help hunt down suspected communist to socialist and anarchist
The correct answer in this case is liberalism.
Socialism is the opposite as it entails (Among other things) the idea of fast changes, if need be with revolution. Neither does utilitarianism talk about social progress through reform.
Libertarians talk exactly about what the question is about; one of the main tennets of liberalism is that they prefer and would like to witness social change through reforms.