Reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Throughout history there have been many reform movements that have changed the country which they took place in. During the first half of the nineteenth century the reform movements in America brought lasting change by causing the citizens of America to rethink their views on many important issues brought about by the economic and social disruptions of the market revolutions. First of all, the Temperance Movement helped to make a lasting change on the dangerous …

…n the amount of alcohol which they consumed. The Woman's Rights Movement gave women the rights which they had long deserved. And the Abolitionist Movement led to the division and ultimately the Civil War which helped to strengthen America. These and many other reforms have helped to shape the America which we know today, and make it into the land of the free where everyone shares equal rights and not a country of drunks.