How did abolitionists want to change us society in the early 1800s? (a) they wanted people to stop drinking alcohol. (b) they wanted everyone to have access to free education. (c ) they wanted to improve conditions in hospitals.(d) they wanted to end the practice of slavery.

The correct answer is (D) They wanted to end the practice of slavery.

Abolitionists were the people who fought against slavery and wanted to abolish it. Hospitals and education were not their area in which they operated, but they supported the idea of equal access to those institutions. Anti-alcohol people were called the temperance union.

Abolitionist were people who wanted to end slavery so the answer must be D. 
Abolish means like ending.