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Why did people see a need for reform during this era?

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In the early twentieth century, reformers worked to improve American society and counteract the effect of industrialization.
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The reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in America focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the ...

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