Reform movements have not always met with perfect support from the nation, and often times violence or hate has broken out as a result, however eventually the nation has made it through these rough times, seeing out the demands and needs of various groups.
Reform Movements
Abolition: late 1700's - 1865
Suffrage, Racial and Women's: late 1700's - 1964
Prohibition: 1820 - 1933
Progressive Movement: 1901 - 1917
Civil Rights: 1950's and 1960's
Feminism: Late 1970's to Today