In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues many middle-class Americans joined reform societies to deal with the issues created by the Market Revolution. Some Americans embraced anti-slavery, abolitionism, temperance, education, and mental health groups to improve the lives of Americans, though they also did so to wield substantial political power. Some Americans rejected these efforts, especially abolitionism, which was a tiny minority of evangelical northern Christians.

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