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An abstinence movement that demoted the consumption of alcohol.

Alcohol was blamed for many of the immorality in city life, especially among men.

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The Female Reform Society offered guidance to young women. They also attended brothels, where they offered prayers, searched for runaway children, and noted client names. They also founded homes for prostitutes.

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The Female Reform Society leads to the Women Suffrage Movement. Women demanded to be respected and eventually led to women voting rights. Rather than being seen as objects of sex, women practiced abstinence, gained a moral compass, and then were seen as respectable women.

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Sexuality becomes an industry in which prostitution, brothels, and using sex as a way to pay becomes common in the city.

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A show in which the performers impersonate African Americans in a comedic and mocking manner in which the person is painted in black/ dark brown paint, portraying African Americans as uncivilized savages, similar to animals, and buffoonish.

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low wages  -> forced into prostitution for $$ -> common for sporting men to go to brothels -> commercial sex was not looked down upon
men go to these brothels, and the action is not looked down upon, yet the women performing the action are looked down upon

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Young men and women moved to the city in search of fortune but found themselves living with difficulty. More specifically, women worked as domestic workers or servants that were taken advantage of by their masters. They turned to prostitution, selling their body to make money. Half of the women had children. The other half had been infected with syphilis (STD). Three fifths of the women were white, and two fifths where immigrants.

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Women values have changed but not racial values. Racial discrimination was still present.

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All of these movements centered around morality and the effects of it on urban culture. Women gained more respect as major Female Moral Reform took place, lowering prostitution and the commercial sex industry. Alcohol became degrading and abstinence was promoted. Life in the city, overall, became more civilized, with the exception of Minstrelsy.