Moral reform development of voluntary organizations to promote social reforms between the 1820s and the 1840s.
In the United States, women are principally responsible for starting and leading the moral reform social movement. In the 1830s and 1840s, a movement known as moral reform aimed to eliminate prostitution, sexual double standards, and sexually immoral behaviour (licentiousness), as well as to encourage sexual abstinence among young people when they entered the marriage market.
The United States had seen an unprecedented transformation as a result of its growing urbanisation and the enormous influx of immigrants, particularly Germans, which some people felt to be frightening. Many believed that the nation had turned into a "moral vacuum" as long-standing patterns were breaking down.
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