The Age of Reform

The entire era of reform between 1825 and 1850 was a major turning point of American society. The ideas and beliefs of the reform movement overall widened the ideals of democracy greatly. The reform movement in the United States tries to take a position by expressing a thought through religion and education, launching a campaign through abolition and abstinence, expanding the belief by concerning madness, and speaking for individual rights . "Second awakening" is to express different ideas. The focus of religion is now directed to God's mercy and compassion, which enhances other beliefs and thoughts.

Richard Hofstadt's reform era In 1955, Richard Hofstadt wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning work "The Reformation's Age" in the golden era. The population of Hofstarter, progressive movement, and arguments about its origins began discussion and renewal of populist and progressive movement. Many historians opposed Hofstadter's claims and presented their own papers while presenting their conclusions based on their own research. This scenario always occurs in the history field.

In the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'The Era of Reform', Richard Hofstarter said. "The special relationship with land reform has now weakened, but I believe that populism is in our own era.The survival of this is partly due to the rage of the provincial anger, the spread and rebellion of" democracy "and Allegations, and lack of Nazism. In fact, in 1896 Hofstadter hurried to William Jennings Bryan this explanation is corrosive, causing a strong protest from historians who have long regarded populists as Jefferson Democrats. But Hofstadter has essentially changed the way mainstream people think about our usual populism Today, supporters of cards, not supporters of Brian, are further condemned, not Nazism, localism. Tolerant accusation

The era of reform of Richard Hofstunter: Brian to F.D.R. (1955; Knopf) is a complete supplement to Boorstin. This book is almost completely written about thought - political thought - it subtly analyzes the tradition of modern reform, from populism to New Deal, Boorstin actively passed. Introduction itself is one of the most savvy evaluations of the American impulse to reform, and this discussion concerns half a century ago today. Hofstäter says that the universal character of left and right American reformers is a moral utopianism, not desiring to follow what is considered to be evil, regardless of whether it is Sharon, Ayutthaya or the Communist Party thinking about.

Historian Richard Hofstus Tatter thinks that the impulse to advance progressive era is mainly the self-critic impulse. In the "era of reform" he wrote: "The moral anger of this era is never completely aimed at others." This is a great and serious guideline for inwards . "