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Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening
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William Lloyd Garrison starts the anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator
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Oberlin College becomes the first college to admit women along with men
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
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George Ripley founds Brook Farm
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Dorothea Dix discovers the horrors in jails and prisons
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300 people participate in the Seneca Falls Conference
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Horace Mann acheieves some success in public education