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This is a 7 page paper that provides an overview of American social reforms of the 19th century. Topics covered include the women's rights movement, public education, and religion. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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slaves of the South that were frequently the topic of reform discussions as well. Neither category of people could vote, both could be legally beaten by their caretakers (plantation masters
or husbands), and neither could own property. As such, women were naturally eager to take part in social reforms of the period. They were eager adopters of emotionalist religious reforms
in the Second Great Awakening, and many also campaigned for political rights for women, such as the right to vote, or the right to receive education and participate in previously
exclusive professional such as medicine. Particular modes of protest against gender inequality were adopted that, while they seem commonplace today, were quite radical at the time, such as refusing to
take ones husbands name in marriage, or wearing pants instead of a skirt or dress. Ultimately, it is clear that these urgings towards social reform would be instrumental in shaping
the freedoms and equal rights that women enjoy today. 2.) The communitarian movement refers to a particular offshoot of the utopian ideals that dominated at
the time of the reformation. Most people had the sense that humanity could be improved through diligent practice of particular virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve
this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities in the wilderness that were dedicated to the particular ideals in question. For instance, Brook Farm in Massachusetts was
a community dedicated to practicing the transcendentalist ideals, and the Oneida Community in in New York was an extremely progressive community founded on principles of free love, polygamy, and even
a fledgling eugenics program to breed a morally and physically superior race of offspring. The largest of the communitarian movements were the Shakers, who were extremely rigid followers of orthodox
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