Reforming the American Society Reform is a way of changing society in order to improve it. America has experienced many kinds of reforms during the time period between the 1800’s and 1900’s. The different types of reform movements in the United States during this time period wanted to expand democratic ideals through religious, women’s rights, abolition and social reforms. During the 1880's and 90's many people had different opinions on reform and on how society was to be changed. Many of these movements got their motivation and ideas in the spiritual awakening that swept the nation in the early 1800’s. The people involved in these movements began to give emphasis to individual responsibility for seeking recovery in the nation and insisted
