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Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening
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Horace Mann makes progress in improving public education
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William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper
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Oberlin College is the first school to accept women as well as men
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend and meet at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
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Dorothea Dix discovers the horrors that the mentally ill and prisoners face
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George Ripley founds Brook Farm, a utopian community
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300 people participate in the Seneca Falls Conference