The Five Reform Movements In The 19th Century

During the 19th century there was five reform movements happening in the United States. There reforms being abolition, women’s rights, education, prison and asylums, and utopian movements. All in which it was causing America to change for the better. Although these reforms were caused for the best of the United States some people did not agree with them. Even though everyone had their own opinion over the five reform movements, at the end they all had a tremendous impact, as they are still important in today’s America history. Reform movements have had a great impact in American history, as if without them the United States of America would not be the same as how it is right now. For example if Horace Mann had not come up with the idea of public education, those who are not financially stable or rich would have not earned any education whatsoever. They would have not received the same opportunities as someone who was born in a wealthy family. Since the impoverished and middle income people could not afford education they would be raising unintelligent children. Those children would be the future of the United States. If there is unintelligent children and they are not getting any education whatsoever, then they are going to grow
The asylum movement isolated and separated the criminal, the insane, the ill, and the dependent from outside society. Before the asylum reform they were all placed under the same facility causing more problems than what occurred once everyone was separated. If it was not for Dorothea Dix, then there would have not been inequality for those people, as people who had a mental disorder would be treated the same as someone who murder someone else. Therefore Dorothea Dix created equality for those people, that has gone on til modern times. Thence the asylum reform movement had a great impact in American