Chapter 12: An Age of Reform , GML questions

                                                Abolitionist movements video
1.Explore why Americans had an impulse to improve American society in the first half of the nineteenth century.
     - They wanted to improve American society  because they were influenced by the Second Great Awakening where everyone wanted to be free of sin. They wanted to cleanse the society of all badness so several people started petitioning liquor. With that other people started petitioning for their rights, for example women and slaves.

2. Explain the significance of the abolitionist movement to the idea of American freedom.
   - The abolitionist movements was the movement to free the slaves and give them rights. This connects to American freedom because when America got their freedom from Britain and the slaves fought to also get their freedom, the slaves were manipulated for freedom and kept slaves. American freedom and the abolitionist movements together relate because abolitionists wanted to free and receive American freedom, have rights like other white individuals, they also wanted to have rights for self-improvement and to be able to have the opportunity to rise from the lower class.

3.Analyze the pros and cons of the colonization movement and why many blacks were opposed to it.
  - Many blacks were opposed to the colonization movement because they wanted to sent back all African Americans back to Africa and the slaves didn't want that because they were already use to living in the United States and were use to looking how white people get their freedom and how they can buy what they desire.
They also wanted to sent back slaves to their country because of racial issues and the belief that black people are never going to be like the white people.

4.Why was this a period of institution building?
   - This was the institution movement because it was the time when the United Sates wanted to purify society into a better place, so thats why many people were petitioning and fighting for their rights. They wanted an America were everyone belong in some kind of group with out being discriminated.

5.How did the abolitionist movement and the women's movement influence each other?
  -The abolitionist movement ans the womens movement influenced each other because abolitionist  was fighting for slavery freedom and rights and so did women. Abolitionists were fighting to be part or consider to be in the society and so were women.