What was the primary benefit of Robert Fulton’s Clermont steamboat invention? Group of answer choices

. Travel time between New York City and Los Angeles was cut in half with the invention.

Travel on canals became easier as canals were originally built to accommodate steamboats

Slaves could now be transported quicker and easier for auction in the South.

Travel time decreased as the steamboat could now travel against the current.

Travel time decreased as the steamboat could now travel against the current.

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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