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some Americans took part in the Christian renewal movement called the Second Great Awakening
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Thomas Gallaudet founded the first free American school for hearing impaired people
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Emma Willard opened Female Seminary
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Americans consumed an average of seven gallons of alcohol per year
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Americans support abolition!!
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Samuel Howe opened the Perkins School for the Blind
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New York City suffered cholera epidemics that killed thousands
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William Garrison helped found the American Anti- Slavery Society
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Mann became Massachusetts's first secretary of education
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Potato Blight brought the Irish to the U.S.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World's Anti- Slavery Convention
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Some transcendentalists formed a community at Brook Farm, Massachusetts
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New York City created the first city police force
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First medical college for women opened!!!
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery
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Nativists founded a political organization, the Know- Nothing Party