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    During the Second Great Awakening‚ a mass revival of American society took place. Reformers of every kind emerged to ameliorate women’s rights‚ education and religious righteousness. At the forefront of the movement were the temperance reformers who fought for a change in alcoholism‚ and abolitionist who strived for the downfall of slavery. Temperance reformers were mostly women and religious leaders. Lyman Beecher‚ a well known preacher and temperance leader during this time‚ talked about how

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    Democracy” Specie circular “slavocracy” Tariff of 1833 “Trail of Tears” Panic of 1837 Force Bill Divorce Bill Lone Star “pet” banks Indian Removal Act Written Responses: 1. Describe and explain the growth of “Mass Democracy” in the 1820’s. 2. Explain the “corrupt bargain”. 3. Identify the regional support for each candidate in the 1824 election. 4. How did the “corrupt bargain” of 1824 and Adams’ unpopular presidency set the stage for Jackson’s election in 1828? 5. How did the

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    The Progressive Era The Progressive Era illustrated a reform movement during a period of economic growth. The effectiveness of the movement included the destruction of the major corporations in America‚ transportation development from the 1860 through the 1900s‚ and urbanization. The Progressive Era successfully passed reform movements and the 17th Amendment but limited the rights of women and children. Theodore Roosevelt developed many progressive policies. The 1907 Washington Post political

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    American Romanticism (1820-1900) Background: Romanticism‚ a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness‚ and in critical usage is contrasted with classicism‚ which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period‚ but as a historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries in reaction to more rational literary‚ philosophic‚ artistic‚ religious‚ and economic standards. Since it gathered force gradually

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    Prison Reform Movement

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    nPrison Reform Movement Messiah‚ Katherine‚ Ezequiel‚ Nancy and Christopher Prison Reform- The attempt to improve conditions inside prison aiming at a more effective penal system Prisons have only been used as the primary punishment for criminal acts in the last couple of centuries. Far more common earlier were various types of corporal punishment‚ public humiliation‚ penal bondage‚ and banishment for more severe offences‚ as well as capital punishment. United States- In colonial America‚ punishments

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    period of time between the mid 1860’s and the late 1870’s‚ referred to as the reconstruction era is quite similar to the first revolution . This period of time should be considered as the second American revolution because of the indistinguishable difference in the set of events that took place in the first and second American revolution. During these revolutions a large group of people was being oppressed likes the colonist in the first revolution and slaves in the second American revolution‚ while

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    Morse created the telegraph and by 1860‚ this ranged throughout the east coast to the Mississippi. Railroads became very important to the trade throughout the United States. By the start of the Civil War‚ railroads linked the most important Mid-West cities with the Atlantic coast. Railroads eventually opened the west and connected raw materials to factories and markets. A transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 in Promontory‚ Utah. On March 3‚ 1820‚ The Missouri Compromise bill‚ written

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    Educational Reform Movement In the early 1800s education in American wasn ’t the best. Most schools were small and only went for 6 weeks because the children worked on their family farms. Other‚ more wealthy‚ children would have a tutor in their homes or they would be sent to a private school. The children that did go to school would sit in a one room building with 60 other children. The teachers also didn ’t have much training and has limited knowledge to teach the children. They also received

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    Reform Movements in the United States A reform movement is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change‚ or change in certain aspects of society‚ rather than rapid or fundamental changes. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements. Reformists’ ideas are often grounded in liberalism‚ although they may be rooted in socialist or religious concepts. Some rely on personal transformation; others rely on small collectives‚ such as

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    List several evils that the reformers of the period 1820-1860 tried to eliminate. Gender inequality and slavery were the two biggest evils that reformers tried eliminating in the time period. The abolition of slavery had many reformers behind it. Two very important men trying to achieve this were Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison‚ a white man‚ going to show there was support from all types of people. Two of the women’s rights advocates were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sarah Grimke. They

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