Although the United States gained independence after the Revolution from Britain, it was not without issues that needed to be addressed in order to promote a better way of life for the people. With the approaching new age came reformers that wanted to ensure that various improvements would occ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An Avid Feminist I wanted women to count as much as men do; we are equal. Those are words I preached to people very often, because that...

Elizabeth Stanton For ages societies have been divided, placing women in one role and men in another, never to be switched or combined. We can see today in our own society that this is not necessarily the most effective system. At one point in our history, the U.S. did not...

The Progressive Era had a number of sources how the reform got on its way. With its increase in productivity and number of consumer goods, Industrialization created unemployment, wasteful natural resources, and abuse from corporate powers. Growing Cities magnified problems of poverty, disease, cr...

History Of The Underground Railroad The name "Underground railroad" was given to a system in which escaped slave could escape to freedom. It's believed the system was started by 1787 by Isaac hopper, a Quaker who started to organize a system of hiding places and sanctuaries in which fugitive sl...

Subsequent to the Revolution for freedom, Americans detained a sense of belonging and individuality. The document "not to forget the ladies", which calculated each, slave as three-fifths an individual, entirely overlooked women. Comparable to Black people, women were well thought-out as &q...