With the sudden growth and expansion during the Industrial Revolution, much of the population prospered, including new and first generation immigrants along with the native citizens. Of course many people did not prosper, and with it social and economic strife occurred. Some of the problems that formed were people fell deeper into poverty, oppression, homelessness, prostitution, recession, cultural bias, and wage declination due to cheaper immigrant labor. Above all, many groups came together to help bring social justice and equality to the state of disarray for the ones being left behind. These movements of groups that wanted to intervene to change the nation became known as reformers. Many of the reformer groups were established by women
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This built up of resentment, fueled the cause for the first American feminist movement to confront restrictions that were placed on women’s rights for over a century (p. 336). Their fight was to strive in breaking the glass ceiling or to remove barriers, raise their statuses, demand the right to vote, and to let it be known that “all men and women are created equal” (p. 336). Slowly their cries for equal rights started to be heard, but it still took several decades or until the 20th century before women could …show more content…
It did help to win efforts in the North to end slavery and to stop the legal slave trade into the Americas in 1808 (p. 337). The American Colonization Society (ACS) organized to resettle African Americans back to Africa or to the Caribbean by transporting free slaves out of the United States, however this mode of transportation did not last long as it became too logistically impossible to achieve (p. 337). Of course, the true aim for other reformers was complete freedom for all slaves. According to the South, that would never happen without a
This built up of resentment, fueled the cause for the first American feminist movement to confront restrictions that were placed on women’s rights for over a century (p. 336). Their fight was to strive in breaking the glass ceiling or to remove barriers, raise their statuses, demand the right to vote, and to let it be known that “all men and women are created equal” (p. 336). Slowly their cries for equal rights started to be heard, but it still took several decades or until the 20th century before women could …show more content…
It did help to win efforts in the North to end slavery and to stop the legal slave trade into the Americas in 1808 (p. 337). The American Colonization Society (ACS) organized to resettle African Americans back to Africa or to the Caribbean by transporting free slaves out of the United States, however this mode of transportation did not last long as it became too logistically impossible to achieve (p. 337). Of course, the true aim for other reformers was complete freedom for all slaves. According to the South, that would never happen without a