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Your question is rather vague by just giving dates ... but I think I know what you might be looking for here. During the "antebellum" (before the Civil War) years and again in the years after the Civil War, there were strong movements by social activists that went against how society wanted to keep women and African Americans in "their place." Social reformers thought that the place assigned to women or to blacks was not at all right. They put forward better ideas of how black Americans and female citizens should have equal status with whites and with men in regard to political, social, and economic rights.
The activist movements from 1820 to 1848 and again from 1865 to 1898 didn't achieve all their goals in that time period, but they began to advance the causes of civil rights for blacks and women -- both movements which would continue into the 20th century.
The US reorganized it's economy to produce food, arms, and other goods to support the war effort. The Food Administration helped boost food production to feed both American troops and Allied troops fighting in the war. The Food Administration also encouraged citizens to plant their own "Victory Gardens" to raise their own food. People went without wheat on Mondays, and without meat on Tuesdays, saving the food for the men fighting in the trenches. The US was short on military supplies, at the time they entered WW1. The War Industries Board told factories what to produce and at what price. The War Labor Board helped settle workers disputes in order to prevent strikes and labor unrest, which would slow down production of needed supplies.
Charles Sumner, who was a Massachusetts senator in the U.S. government, died in 1874. He actively worked towards movements that would assist slaves in the south before, during and after the war. In the years leading up to his death, he and his colleagues continued to lobby for better rights for the African-Americans in the South.
