What was the effect of Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention? It inspired the Virginia legislators to vote for arming their colony against England.

It caused the Virginia House of Burgesses to reject the British Stamp Act.

It provoked the Virginia legislators to arrest Patrick Henry for treason.

It sparked an immediate, nationwide rebellion of all the American colonies.

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).

explanation:

a system of cooperative federalism emerged, as the powers of the federal government expanded.