Chapter 12 Timeline

By drumming88

  • Revival

    Massive Revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.

  • Second Awakening

    The Second Great Awakening begins.

  • Public Education

    A rise for the desire in public education occurs through the 1820's and 1830's.

  • Liberia; West Africa

    In 1821 the American Peace Society created a colony in Liberia, in order to settle thousands of African Americans.

  • American Temperance Society

    The American Temperance Society is organized.

  • Evangelistic

    Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester, New York.

  • The Liberator

    William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator.

  • Anti-Slavery

    Abolitionists found American Anti-Slavery Society.

  • Theodore Weld

    Theodore Weld advocates abolition in Ohio and upstate New York.

  • Temperance Split

    American Temperance Society split into factions.

  • Massachusettes gets board

    Massachusettes establishes a board of education.

  • Proslavery

    Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy killed by a proslavery mob.

  • Anti-Slavery split

    American Anti-Slavery Society split over women's rights and other issues.

  • Brook Farm

    Transcendentalists organize a model community at Brook Farm.

  • Feminists gather

    Feminists gather at Seneca Falls, New York, and found the women's rights movement.

  • Walden

    Henry David Thoreau's Walden is published.