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tremendous change. In particular, the Industrial Revolution had sparked a migration of workers from the rural areas to the cities, and with that influx of people came a new middle
class who were worried about the "social changes in their communities" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 365). They sought to deal with these changes by joining reform organizations that were
tackling issues such as "temperance, education, prisons and asylums, womens rights, abolitionism, and, above all, the spread of evangelical religion" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 365). Reformers spread their message
with much greater ease than in the past, thanks to new inventions like the steam printing press (Faragher et al, 2000). Soon, there were networks of reform organizations stretching across
the country (Faragher et al, 2000). The main assumption underlying all these reform organizations must have been that the changes they were seeing were not good and that they could
do something about them. In addition, there were three other assumptions driving the reformers of this period. First, they recognized that "traditional methods of small-scale local relief were no longer
adequate" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 366). They saw the huge number of people coming to the cities and knew that any efforts to help the disadvantaged had to be
public and systematic, rather than the private efforts then underway (Faragher et al, 2000). The second assumption of the reformers were that people were basically decent; that is, people in
general were assumed to be basically good (Faragher et al, 2000). The third assumption was that they knew what was right: the reformers were largely motivated by evangelical religion, and
they were convinced that their methods and beliefs would have the desired results when no one elses would (Faragher et al, 2000). This belief in their own superiority led to
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