Social Events during the Great Awkening

By SarahFricky

  • Second Great Awakening begins

    The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival in which after it occured many American's became practicing christians. (Religious revival).

  • Emma Willard

    Establishes a school for women, known as the Troy Female Seminary. (Women's rights).

  • Mormon Religion founded

    Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Religion. (Religious reform).

  • The Liberator

    The Liberator was a newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison basically telling slaves to revolt against the whites. (A significant work of literature).

  • The Nat Turner Uprising

    Belonging in the Abolition movement, Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill whites in the hopes for freedom.

  • Horace Mann - Massachusetts schools

    Mann becomes superintendent of Massachusetts schools after serving in the Massachusetts senate. (Other).

  • Frederick Douglas

    Frederick Douglas had tought slaves to read before he escaped slavery and traveled to New York to live in 1838. (Abolition movement).

  • Dorthea Dix

    Began her work in prisons, hospitals, and asylums, pushing for better treatment of the mentally insane and handicapped people.

  • Brooks Farm

    Brooks Farm was a community based on the ideas of Transcendentalism. (Religious reform).

  • Women in the 19th Century

    Margaret Fuller wrote this book and it inspired Mott and Stanton to organize Seneca Falls. I cannot find an exact date for this one. (Significant work of literature).

  • Seneca Falls

    Seneca Falls was a convention on women's rights organzied by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Women's rights movement).

  • Amelia Bloomer - The Lily

    Amelia Bloomer publishes her views on temperance and social issues in the U.S. (Literature)

  • Civil Disobedience

    Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) to explain his feelings about being arrested for not paying taxes. (Significant work of literature).

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman escaped slavery by traveling a 90 mile journey on foot through the Underground Railroad led by North Star.

  • Neil Dow - Maine Law

    The Maine Law was all about the temperance movement and prohibiting alcohol making Maine one of the first states to abide by this law. Hence the name, the Maine Law. (Abolition).

  • Uncle Tom's Cabinet

    Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin -an antislavery novel- in 1851. (Significant work of literature).

  • The 13th Ammendment

    The 13th ammendment abolished slavery in the United States. (Abolition movement).

  • Married Women's Property Act

    This granted property rights to married women which allowed them to own their own land.

  • The 18th Ammendment

    The 18th ammendment was the prohibition of alcohol. (Abolition movement).

  • The 19th Ammendment

    The 19th ammendment guarenteed all women the right to vote. (Women's rights movement).