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Massive revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
highly emotional camp meeting, first of this size -
American Temperance Society organized
society promoting reform and the abolition of slavery as well as restraining from alcohol, and expanding women's rights -
Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester New York
Rochester New York gets it -
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of the Liberator
First issue of the anti-slavery paper, the Liberator -
Abolitionist found American Anti-Slavery Society
Abolitionist society founded -
Teodore Weld advocates aboition in Ohio and upstate New York
his meetings promote aboltion of slavery and leave thousands of abolitionists and hundreds of abolitionist societies -
American Temperance Society splits into factions
split into two factions, one that honored the Constitution and one that went agains it -
Massachusetts establishes a state board of education
structured education system -
Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy killed
killed by a proslavery mob