THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING CHARLES FINNEY AND RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
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The Civil War
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Reconstruction
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Reform Movements that changed the problems that the American society was facing
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The Missouri Compromise
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Factors such as growth of nationalist sentiments, emergence of new economic forces, spread of education, impact of modern Western ideas and culture and increased awareness of the world strengthened the resolve to reform.
Detailed explanation-3: -The religious reform movements helped many Indians to come to terms with the modem world. These movements led to the emergence of Indian nationalism and eventually the freedom struggle.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some historians have even labeled the period from 1830 to 1850 as the “Age of Reform.” Women, in particular, played a major role in these changes. Key movements of the time fought for women’s suffrage, limits on child labor, abolition, temperance, and prison reform.