In this era, some religious movements developed that underscored the possibility that everyone in society could achieve perfection and salvation. This differed from the belief in earlier eras that salvation was limited to a few people who were saved by a gracious God. How might these changing views be linked to reform movements? How did religious change focus upon the family? Did religion liberate or inhibit the lives and freedom of women? Were reformers concerned more about improving society or about controlling it? How might people in reform movements, such as abolitionism, view the government? Was it a positive or negative force?