Both grew out of the Second Great Awakening as reform movements to improve the American society.
The revival of religion and an American spin on old faiths and new faiths being created led to a focus on reform. The new nation had fallen away from religion and women were especially empowered by the revival of religion. The temperance movement was an attempt to improve the morality of Americans. Drinking was seen as wasteful and destroyed American work ethic. The women's movement connected because so many women were concerned with reform movements. They began to realize that they would have more power if they were able to vote.
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on 4 March 1865. As Lincoln prepared to speak, the Civil War was drawing to a close. Newspapers were filled with reports of the armies of William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. As late as August 1864, neither Lincoln nor his Republican Party believed he could win reelection. Now Lincoln would be the first president inaugurated for a second term in thirty-two years. The crowd of thirty to forty thousand was greeted by an ongoing rain that produced ten inches of mud in the streets of Washington. Sharpshooters were on the rooftops surrounding the ceremony. Rumors abounded that Confederates might attempt to abduct or assassinate the president
That's because southerners didn't want anyone interfering with their social class set up, or compete for jobs with African American workers.
New York City, and New York Harbor.
