Following the Second Great Awakening, an era of religious revivals that defined the first quarter of the 19th century, the popular ideology of American society was shifted to perfectionism and the idea that society should represent God’s wishes the best it could. Consequentially, specific individuals began to seek these improvements creating movements for reform. This age of reform was a time in which monumental progress was made in the areas of penitentiaries and asylums, women’s rights, public education…
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