Social Reform

The social changes in American society were an effort to cure many of the problems that had developed during the great burst of industrial growth in the last part of the 19th century. The frontier had been controlled, great cities and businesses developed and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the new wealth, status and brightness. During the social reform of America, the Eighteenth Amendment was passed. This banned the manufacture, …

…and Nineteenth Amendments were only two out the many social changes that occurred in American society. Unfortunately, not all changes worked out. For example, Prohibition was not a success. Prohibition didn't work out because people rebelled against the government and drank anyway. The Women's Suffrage was a success, because the women fought and protested for their right's and did not give up, and in the end, they got what they were fighting many years for.