Question

Who were the “reformers”? By reformers I'm wondering the ones of the time period who dealt with the so-called Indian Problem. Maybe some of the names of those reformers.

Answer 1

Edward Everett was one reformer.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/27/1091008/-US-to-1865-Andrew-Jackson-and-the-Indian-Removal-Act-of-1830-with-a-personal-note#

http://books.google.com/books?id=LPS0oyJ5RhUC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=reformers+Indian+problem&source=bl&ots=JXAMX_P2PX&sig=HPVUByi6xqMEcnZA4Nls1OU26Bc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=t-DnVKKxKMegNtGigtAN&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=reformers%20Indian%20problem&f=false

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?zid=5829ba986febfc77c5a0ea30116a240c&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CBT2330501520&userGroupName=lnoca_hawken&jsid=24d9747562a3933d2c0889d941aeb62e

Answer 2

also try:

http://www.shmoop.com › History › The Gilded Age

http://www.faculty.tnstate.edu/tcorse/h2020/reform_and_the_gilded_age.htm

http://www.xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/photography/reform/gildedage.html