The Age of Cultural Reforms

Transcendentalism was among the more radical social philosophies of the nineteenth century.

Women's rights in the nineteenth century focused primarily on women's suffrage, or the right to vote.

The abolitionist movement intensified in the first half of the nineteenth century, and tensions between the North and the South continued to rise.

The temperance movement of the early nineteenth century advocated for alcohol moderation or complete abstinence from alcohol.

In the nineteenth century, a series of important social movements sought to reform both prisons and asylums in the United States.

After the Second Great Awakening, many religious groups formed utopian communities in which they attempted to live governed by their creeds.