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ch.14

  • Second Great Awakening started

  • SEcond Great Awakening ends

  • Gallaudet founded the first free American school for hearing impaired people

  • new interest in religion spread to new england

  • dramatic religion conversion

  • on average american consumed seven gallons of alcohol per year

  • Samual Howe opened the Perkins school for the blind

  • new york suffered cholera epidemics that killed thousands

  • more than 4 million immigrants came to the US

  • some transcendentalists formed a community at brook farm

  • election flyer gave americans warning

  • some Germans made a revolution against a harsh rule

  • fist medical collage for women opened

  • Boston health committee reported that low wages forced most Irish immigrants to live in poor housing

  • some nativists became politically active