ABSTRACT
Incomplete as the evidence is, the pattern of reform among European Americans in each of the three communities, and in the central New York region as well, is reasonably clear. In the late 1820s and early 1830s, benevolent reform organizations, including the American Sunday School Union, made major efforts to bring all of central New York into the fold. The American Sunday School Union cooperated with local churches to promote social order and to develop strong religious institutions in a rapidly expanding, unstable society.
