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Charles Finney and the Second Great Awakening
During the 1820s, Charles Finney preached in the Second Great Awakening, saying that if people did good deeds they would be forgiven by God and be "saved". -
"The Liberator" is started
William Lloyd Garrison, and abolitionist, starts an anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator". -
Oberlin College
Ohio's Oberlin College was founded in 1837 and was the first college to accept both men and women. -
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two important figures in womens' suffrage, first met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention. The women at the convention were forced to sit behind a curtain on a balcony and were not allowed to speak, further increasing Mott's and Stanton's will to fight for womens' suffrage. -
Dorothea Dix and Prison Life
Starting in 1841, Dorothea Dix visited hundreds of prisons and asylums and researched the living conditions and treatment of the prisoners and the mentally insane. The results were astonishing to Dorothea, as children were in the same cells as adults, debtors were kept in prison where they could not pay off their debts and the insane were being punished. The government was informed of these injustices by Dorothea and gave prisoners better living conditions and the insane treatment and care. -
George Ripley Founds Brook Farm
George Ripley founded Brook Farm during the Second Great Awakening in an effort to create a "perfect" society where residents lived in "brotherly cooperation" instead of in competiontion. Brook Farm is located near Boston. -
The Seneca Falls Conference
At the Seneca Falls Conferance, almost 300 people took part in the beginning of the organized women's rights movement. The Conferance had people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth talk and sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that details the acts of tyranny by men against women and states that women should get more rights. -
Horace Mann and Public Education
Horace Mann, Massachusett's Supervisor of Education, was an important figure in the improvement of education in America. Mann spoke about how education would help America in the future, leading to more taxes being spent on schools and teachers. Mann also supported women and African Americans in getting proper education.
