Answer:
Both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement were part of the larger progressive movement that influenced American Politics during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
For this reason, both movements aimed for equal treatment of a particular opressed group: African Americans, who wer enslaved, in the case of the abolitionist movement, and Women, who had less civil and political rights than men, in the case of the Feminist Movement.
Both movements were very successful because they achieved their main goals: the end of slavery and women's suffrage.
If I remember from last year, it is true because the leaders let the people keep their cultures as to prevent from any revolts and such.
I believe it was because they owed money
