Leaders of the temperance movement argued that a ban on alcohol would lead to? 1. Increased property rights for women.

2. an increase in the number of workers who could read and write.

3. a decrease in domestic violence.

4. greater employment opportunities for women in factories.

The Black Death was an epidemic transmitted by rat fleas that killed about a third of the population that inhabited the European continent in the mid-fourteenth century. It is estimated that the Black Death arrived in Europe through the Silk Road craft, which brought goods - and rats - from China and initially manifesting in Sicily about 1347 and spreading rapidly throughout Europe.