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    period from 1820-1850 were the years of change for the American society. It was a period of time when the most important and diversified events that occurred in the American history; it was a period of time to break free from old habits and beliefs that had been left behind. The main goal of the reforms was to make the society a better place for everyone. And the reforms did bring magnificent changes to slavery‚ women’s rights‚ and people’s morality. One of the most successful reform efforts

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    social change in the United States in the period 1820 to 1860? Between the 1820s and the 1860s‚ advances were being made in leaps and bounds‚ especially in transportation. From the invention of the cotton gin to interchangeable parts‚ mechanical advancements began to take effect. However‚ Americans were still walking on unprepared ground and taking longer to reach from point A to point B. Because of this boom in technology‚ in order to get material from one place to another‚ transportation innovations

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    From the 1760s to the 1860s opposition to slavery grew and morphed‚ culminating in the outbreak of the American Civil War. The writing of the Three-Fifths Clause‚ in 1787 (Source 1) reveals how‚ from the birth of the Union‚ the issue of slavery forced sides to come to uneasy compromises. Slavery at this time was purely a political and economic issue. Throughout the 100 years however‚ the opposition to slavery evolved. The formation the single issue party‚ The Free Soil party‚ in 1848‚ symbolised

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    AP U.S. History December 3‚ 2013 Analysis of the Compromise Breakdown from 1820 to 1860 Time periods of American history are analyzed closely to the extent that it is essential to understand the motives and basis for future events and to recognize social patterns. Among events that have affected the United States‚ immigrations‚ wars and political dispute are three of the chief categories that most directly affect the state of the nation as well as each other. The war class has been easily liked

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    Movements for Liberal Reform and Revolution- In decade following Congress of Vienna‚ conservative regimes=successful in maintaining order as only revolutions in Greece and Latin America succeeded‚ but late 1820’s brought new series of challenges. Russia‚ France‚ and Great Britain would deal w/ these new demands/problems in own unique ways.* Russia – Suppression:-- Secret societies developed in military. The Southern Society=more radical (republicans; no serfdom) while the Northern Society=more moderate

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    The Progressive Era‚ which lasted from 1900 to 1918‚ was a time in which the American government and its people aimed to improve their economic status and to correct injustices of their country. Here are the ten leading reform movements: 1. Civil Rights After the Civil War‚ some would have expected that racism would have stopped but unfortunately‚ that didn’t happened. Racism still existed in the American society in the stated era therefore civil rights organizations‚ most made for African-Americans

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    The reform movements in the United States of the years 1825-1850 were intended to expand democratic ideals – those of equality and justice for man. While many did accomplish this‚ such as the educational‚ disciplinary‚ educational‚ feminist and abolitionist movementsreforms revolving around governmentally-controlled religion and temperance‚ utopias‚ and nativism ultimately limited the overall democratic ideals of society. The Second Great Awakening inspired many movements that truly did further

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    Throughout history‚ reform movements emerged‚ causing a tremendous social extension of reform from the late nineteenth century into the Progressive movement of 1900-1920. Subsequent to moving into the United States‚ immigrants had seen a new side of the impeccable nation it lead itself on to be‚ as many children previously living in America‚ were living in squalid conditions and were being exhausted through extensive and unsafe work. Along with immigrants‚ women in America were also beginning to

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    School reform has been in the American limelight for a while now‚ the articles “’Crisis in Education‚’ ‘What Went Wrong with U.S. Schools‚’ and ‘We Are Less Educated than Fifty Years Ago’” (1) were all published around 1957. Around this time‚ America started to fall behind in global events like Sputnik’s launch and Japan taking the lead as an economic powerhouse were noted by critics as examples of the decline of American schools. In 1983‚ the National Commission on Excellence published a report

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    Puritanism: a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that informed their whole way of life‚ and they sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole

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