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The Ferment of Reform 1830 - 1860 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Ferment of Reform 1830 - 1860 (Paperback, New ed)
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EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War
United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the
reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures,
is to understand much about the American nation as a whole. To be
sure, there was more to antebellum history than reform. At the same
time that the reformers were trying to change men's ideas and
actions, other Americans were holding fast to traditional concepts
and ways of doing things. Even as the reformers were battering the
walls of unrighteousness, both they and other men were taming wild
nature for human use, expanding the nation's boundaries and settled
areas at the expense of Indians and Mexicans, adapting its
political institutions and political parties to the needs of a
restless and growing people, wrestling with the thousand and one
problems inherent in the pursuit of happiness. Yet historians have
believed that the myriad of reforms and reformers offer a meaning
for much of the whirl of confusion and change that was America in
the antebellum years. They offer as well, some historians have
claimed, valuable insights into the difficulties the Americans
encountered when they tried to give concrete meaning to their
cherished ideals-so often voiced, so little understood-of democracy
and freedom."
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