In this lecture from Yale's DeVane course America at 250: A History, Professor Joanne Freeman concludes her series of lectures on the American Experiment by examining movements of protest and reform in the early republic. Recorded in Yale's Battell Chapel as part of this one-time-only course tracing United States history from the 1770s forward, the session surveys the searching and struggles, and the opportunities and losses, that defined efforts to expand who could fully participate in American democracy. It serves as a capstone to Freeman's portion of the course before the narrative shifts to David Blight's lectures on the sectional crisis.