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Second Awakening
The Second Great Awakening begins. -
Revival
Massive Revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky. -
Cult of Domesticity
The cult of domesticity was founded. It went from 1820 to 1860 -
American Temperance society organized
A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation. -
T. Weld converted by Charles Finney
Weld becomes a very active and passionate abolitionist -
Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester, New York
Finney was known for his innovations in preaching and religious meetings such as having women pray in public meetings of mixed gender, development of the "anxious seat", a place where those considering becoming Christians could come to receive prayer, and public censure of individuals by name in sermons and prayers. He was also known for his use of extemporaneous preaching. -
Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester, New York
Finney was known for his innovations in preaching and religious meetings such as having women pray in public meetings of mixed gender, development of the "anxious seat", a place where those considering becoming Christians could come to receive prayer, and public censure of individuals by name in sermons and prayers. He was also known for his use of extemporaneous preaching. -
Report
A clergyman published a report claiming there were 10,000 prostitutes in the city laying their snare for innocent men. -
Slavery Movement
Garrison launched a new anti-slavery movement. He published a journal called The Liberator. -
Abolitionists found American Anti-Slavery Society
The American Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of the society and often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was another freed slave who often spoke at meetings. By 1838, the society had 1,350 local chapters with around 250,000 members -
Theodore Weld advocates abolition in Ohio and upstate New York
Theodore Weld wanted immediate emancipation in the Western Reserve. Immediate abolition of slavery is what he believed in. -
Temperance Split
American Temperance Society split into factions. -
Elijah Lovejoy killed by a proslavery mob
Lovejoy died trying to pretect a warehouse that belonged to someone else, but held his printing press. After his death, he was seen as a martyr and statues were erected in his recognition. -
Horace Mann
Horace Mann convinced legislature to enact his proposal and he resigned from his seat to become the first secretary of the new board. -
Brook Farm
Transcendentalists organize a model community at Brook Farm. -
Declaration of Sentiments
is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known as the Seneca Falls Convention. -
Seneca falls convention
early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Boston-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her speaking ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time.
