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Transcendentalism
People should be dependent on themselves and their intuition. -
Abolitionism
End slavery. -
Seneca Falls
Women's rights convention; 19th amendment (women's suffrage) -
Temperance
Pushed to reduce the use of alcoholic beverages; Prohibitionists.
Promoted the 18th amendment -
Free Soils Party
Helped for expansion & distributing the land out west.
Prevented further expansion of slavery. -
Radical Republicans
Pushed for reconstruction after the Civil War -
Populism
Pushed to make the economy more fair for the farmers and the "have-nots".
Promoted bimetallism. -
Labor Unions
Pushed for worker's rights, fair wages, and safer working conditions -
Progessive Era
Pushed for social, economic, moral and political reform.
