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Massive Revival held at Crane Ridge, Kentucky
Cane Ridge, Kentucky, USA was the site, in 1801, of a large camp meeting that drew thousands of people and had a lasting influence as one of the landmark events of the Second Great Awakening. Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians all participated, and many of the "spiritual exercises", such as glossolalia, were exhibited that later became more associated with the Pentecostal movement. Perhaps the most lasting legacy of Cane Ridge was a formalization of what would become known as the Restoration -
Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions is formed.
In New England, Beecher and his evangelical associates were behind the establishment of a great network of missionary and benevolent societies. Board formed by Presbytarians and Congregationalists. -
Board of Commisioners distributes 140,000 bibles
The Board founded by Presbytarians and Congregationalists distributed 140,000 bibles mostly in parts of the west where churches and clergymen were scare. -
Finney Begins Chain of Revivals
Finney conducted a series of highly successful revivals in towns and cities of western New York, culminating in triumph in Rochester in 1830. -
Foundation of the American Tract Society
A major effort went into publication and distibution of religious tracts, mainly by this society. -
American Temperance Society organized
he American Society (rules) for the Promotion of Temperance or better known as the American Temperance Society was a society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA. Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S. with 170,000 members who had taken a pledge to abstain from drinking distilled beverages. Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,500,000 members who had taken the pledge. -
Evangelical Summit meeting held by Beecher and Finney
Lyman Beecher and eastern evangelicals were disturbed by Finney's new methods and by the emotionalism that accompanied them. They were also upset because he biolated long standing Christian tradition by allowing women to pray at church. This meeting failed to reach agreement on the issues at hand. -
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator
Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. -
Abolitionists founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
Was 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. Famous members included Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet -
Theodore Weld advocated abolition in Ohio and upstate New York
Weld became the leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society in the mid-1830s. He recruited agents known as “The Seventy” who traveled and spoke in assigned districts representing the American Anti-Slavery Society. By late 1836, his vigorous oration had caused the loss of his voice, so he turned to writing as a means of expression. -
Garrison is mobbed in the streets of Boston.
Garrison mobbed and almost lynched. Abolotionists were more likely to encounter fierce and effective opposition near the Mason-Dixon line. -
Abraham Lincoln moves to Springfield, Illinois
Young Abe Lincoln moved to Springfield and set fourth his political principles when he spoke at the local lyceums on the Perpetuation of our Political Institutions. -
American Temperance Society splits into two factions
They split over two issues whether the abstinence pledge should be extended to include bear and wine, and whether pressure should be applied to producers and sellers of alcoholic beverages as well as consumers. -
Massachusetts establishes State Board of Education
Horace Mann persuaded legislature to enact his proposals and he resigned his seat to become the first secretary of the new board, an office held with great distinction until 1848. -
Elijah Lovejoy killed
Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy was killed by a proslvery mob while attempting to defend himself and his printing press from a mob in Alton, Illinois, just across the Mississippi River where he was shot and killed. -
American Anti-slavery Society Splits
Society splits over womens' rights and other issues. A minority led by lewis Tappan withdrew from competing organization after a majority elected a woman abolitionist to the society's executive committee. -
Transcendentalists organiz a model
At the Brook Farm, a group of transcendentalists rejected Emerson's radical individualism and founded a cooperative community nerar Roxbury, Massachusetts. -
Feminists gather at Seneca Falls
Feminists gather in New York, and found the women's rights movement. They issued a declaration of sentiments and this became the head of the campaign for womens rights. -
Oneida Community Established
Established at Oneida, new York, and was nispired by an unorthodox brand of Christian perfectionism. It's founder believed that Christ had already returnedand human beings were no longer obliged to follow moral rules. -
Henry David Thorneau's Walden was published.
Henry David Thorneau's Walden was published. This was the result of Thorneau's living alone in the woods along the shore of Walden Pond and carefully recorded his thoughts and impressions. This became one the the greatest achievements in American Literature.
