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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 massachusetts legislator . Her petition made stomachs churn from the descriptiveness of how these menatlly ill people were being treated. This was truly a great accomplishment for Dorthea but if it were not for the enlightening of harsh laws such as the imprisonment for debt which eventually was abolished and the criminal codes being enlightened and reformed her journey on the pursuit for the mentally ill to be treated properly could of lasted much longer. Despite women\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s

accomplishments they still were seen to have a place in \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"cult of domesticity.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" The home was the women's special sphere, the metaphorical centerpiece of the "cult of domesticity." . Lucretia Mott, a Quaker whose ire had been aroused when she and her fellow female delegates had a antislavery convention in London but had not been recognized for it . Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell challenged a mans world when she became the first female graduate of a medical college. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a mother of seven who had insisted that at her marriage ceremony the words obey be left out of the vows.The choice that she made to remove obey from her wedding vows shocked feminist because of it was a huge gesture in the avocation of women\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s

suffrage . Susan B. Anthony, a feminist fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets from then on progressive women everywhere were called "Suzy Bs." . Fighting feminist met at Seneca Falls, New York for the first Women's rights Convention where Stanton read the delceration of sentment which was in spirit of the declaration of independence which declares that all men and women are created equal.

Drinking became a great problem during the second awakening. For a small period of time it had seemed that everyone was a drunk workers women men and children it was threatening