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Great american history altering reformations took place during the Second Great Awakening which was a time of enlightment in America where many different issues where challenged such as women's
rights , anti-alcoholism, jail and mental improvements, surged through America.

At the time of the second awakaning women sought
to be noticed and treated as equals. During this time women achieved plenty. In the 1820s Emma Willard made a great accomplishment for female education she made women's
secondary schools respectable and started the Troy Female Seminary. This wasn't
the only step up in education for woman Oberlin college had decided to open its doors to women as well as men at this time. Many strong woman began to emerge druring this time another is Dorthea Dix a reformer who worked very hard to prove that the demented were not perversed but just meantally ill. The mentally ill were treated quite poorly but because of Dortheas petition of 1843 that was given to the......

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