Discuss the statement below by presenting five or six reform movements that highlight the following:
Why did Jacksonian America–mid-1820s to the late 1840s–produce a flowering of reforms in order to confront the social ills of the day? In short, why did so many men and women embrace these various crusades in the early nineteenth century? What created this zeal for change in the first place, who were some of the key crusaders, and how effectively did the reformers respond to the myriad of problems in that period of time?
