The reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in America focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of Native Americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).
It was "Booker T Washington" who started school in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming, since he believed this was a way in which this children could eventually advance in society.
The start of Civil Wars and Mali's decline was due to struggles over the line of succession, essentially the <span>ordered sequence the people eligible to succeed to the throne if the leader were to be dethroned, die, etc.</span>
