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Shaker Community Established
believed in a new theology based on the principle of sexual equality -
Second Great Awakening
A massive revival happenned that was held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky involed a crowd estimated to be about 50,000. -
American Temperance Society Organized
A group against the evils of alcohol and abstained from it. -
Charles Finney evangelizes Rochester, NY
Finney conducted a series of highly succesful revivals all throughout NY, -
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of the Liberator
This magazine called for immidiate and unconditional emancipation, and denounced colonization as a slaveholder's plot to remove troublesome free blacks. -
Abolotionists Found American Anti-Slavery Society
Hoped that organized religion and the exisiting political system could be influenced or even taken over by abolotionists, -
Tappan Bros.
The Tappan Brothers distrubuted pamphlets that talked about anitislavery. -
Garrison mobbed
Garrison was mobbed in the streets of Boston and almost lynched for his abolitional beliefs. -
American Temperance Society splits into factions
The American Temperance Society split into many separate groups such as the Shakers and Oneida communities. -
Massachusetts establishes State BOE
With the help of Horace Mann Massacusetts establsihed the first BOE. -
Elijah Lovejoy killed
Killed by a proslavery mob. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea defended the inhumane treatment of ppl in insane asylums. -
American Anti-Slavery Society splits over rights
The Society split over women's rights and other issues, -
Liberty Party Discovered
signaled a new effort to turn antislavery sentiment into political power. -
Transcendentalists organize Brook Farm
Group members of this farm worked the land, conducted a school, and allowed ample time for conversation, meditation, communion with nature, and artistic activity of all kinds, -
North Star published
Published by Douglass -
Seneca Falls Meeting
A meeting by feminists talking about women's rights. -
Oneida Community established
was inspired bu the unorthodox brand of Christian perfectionism. -
The Walden is published
Written by Henry David Thoreau, a novel about when he livedin the woods all by himself in a cabin.
