Discuss three major reform efforts of the young republic period

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Major reform efforts of the young Republic period
The U. S established the quality of improvement throughout the mid19th century. It was concerned with such areas as the issues about women, the revival of religion, educational matters, and abolitionism. By 1820s, America was undergoing terrifying and unsettling economic, sociopolitical modifications (Sims 58). The farming and rural life were gradually changing with the development of townships and cities, industrialization and the rise of a market economy. The governments and private sector were capitalizing in infrastructures, railways, bridges, canal, and channels that connected the distant areas of the growing republic. The new industrial world changed the social affairs and work. Many people change to that direction from farming, which modified the traditional culture. Machines that also needed skilled craft personnel replaced ancient techniques. Many changes caused by industrialization over oppression, accompanied by genuine interests for the predicament of the poor, led to transformation activities in education, health, religion, temperance, prison, land possession and development, women’s civil rights, and abolition. The main reforms of the young republic period include modifications in the sectors of education, religion, and politics, which led to the major positive changes in the American history.
The Second Great Awakening was a period that marked the essential evolution of the U. S religious life.

The Founding Fathers proved their disagreement to the combination of religion and the government by differentiating the government and church in the First Constitutional Amendment. There were transformations in the religious sector in America throughout the 1790s to 1830s as it was detached from the government and the control of politics. The spiritual revival altered the U. S religion character. The revolution began with Congregationalists as the leading denomination, Anglicans, and Quakers (Sims 58). By 1800s, Baptists and Evangelical Methodism were the fastest growing religions in the nation. Many religious groups emphasized on the deep wickedness of individuals and thought that only by God’s grace could save them.
To save people, the evangelical engagements focused on the capacity of individuals to affirm their free to be saved. They recommended and educated people that salvation was open to everybody. The Second Great Awakening involved large camp meetings that led to the convert of many people through audience participation and passionate preaching (Benjamin 406). Evangelical churches innovative structural systems furthered the accomplishment of the Second Great Awakening. They depended on itinerant preachers for reaching large areas. The varied revivals for years made America Protestant country than it was before. The Second Great Awakening combined major roles for white women and African American involvement in Christianity than there was before.
Numerous political and socioeconomic features were cognizant and accompanied by the wish to develop and reform education. The three significant main components of education transformation advanced in the antebellum age. The improvements are involved; educating free blacks, schooling for the ordinary person and better entree to higher learning for women. The notions that free standard education lead to good citizenship and ethical education directed the common education undertaking. Improvement of the difficulties facing the new republic would be ensured by free common education (Hunt 347). The common school movement was a particular formal education that would be accessible to every citizen. It was developed and managed at the state level by the governmental activities and supported by taxes from the local property. Common schooling was universal and free since it was availed to all children regardless of class. However, the Irish Catholics and African Americans were marginalized or excluded in the common education. The general education’s primary objective was to provide a school system that was more centralized and efficient (Norton 174). It aimed at assimilating, disciplining, and training the children for a successful life in an industrial society.
In the first decade of the 19th century, the United States went through dramatic changed in the period of Democratic-Republican political leadership. There were fundamental challenges to the new fragile republic posed by the expansion of the nation to the west and renewed conflict with the Great Britain and Indian nations. These three factors majorly contributed to the war of 1812. The war served as a turning point to the young republic. The survival of the United States from the war with its former colonial ruler called forth a national effort that pulled closer together Americans from distinct regions (Benjamin 406). After 1812, the United States developed in a distinctly American fashion. Political innovations of the Republic, the surge of western settlement and the federal constitutions underwent enormous dramatic changes after the Second War for American Independence in the year 1815.
The reform efforts of the young republic period were of great success. Americans experienced exhilarating changes in the social, economic, and political aspects after the year 1820 due to the reforms. Slavery slowly faded away and women issues addressed in the constitution. Common education was availed to all due to the efforts of these reforms. The United States owes its status to the efforts of the reforms of the young republic period.
Work cited
Benjamin, Gerald. The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
Hunt, Thomas C. Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2010. Print.
Norton, Mary B. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008. Print.
Sims, David A. The Child in American Evangelicalism and the Problem of Affluence: A Theological Anthropology of the Affluent American-Evangelical Child in Late Modernity. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2009. Print.