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10 January 2019
Final Exam Essay 1
During the nineteenth century, many citizens of the newly founded country began to
realize that their system was flawed in a sense that not everyone was being treated with equality.
A large rise of the middle class, as well as growing social tensions within growing urban
populations inspired various social reform movements; heavily influenced by transcendentalism,
in pursuit of creating a better environment for women, African Americans, and other
marginalized minorities in America.
One of the earliest signs of social upheaval in nineteenth century America was led by the
women of Lowell, Massachusetts, to protest their maltreatment in the workplace and extremely
