During the reformation, many people devoted their time to making changes in different areas. These people were known as reformers because they used their voice to create a change. Amelia Bloomer was a woman who helped greatly increase women’s rights and many other movements.
Amelia Bloomer became a well know reformer from her work in the women's activist movement, temperance movement, and dress reform. The first step she took in women's rights was publishing The Lily, which focused on temperance issues. It was in one of her articles that Bloomer first proposed the idea of changing women's clothing. In that time period, women had to wear tight corsets, several layer of petticoats, and full-length dresses. She addressed the problem of how restrictive
