Asimilarity between the pre-civil war abolitionist movement and the progressive movement is that

Both of these movements were fighting for the logical rights of the people. The abolitionist movement involved bestowing basic human rights to the slaves of the South who were held against their will. The progressive movement was for the rights of the workers to have equal and steady pay, safe working conditions, and the improve the overall condition and rights of the workers in America in that time. 

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