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The Second Great Awakening begins
The Second Great Awakening was a burst of religious energy in the 1800's. It reawakened religious felling across America.ONe of the most influentail revivalists was Charles Finney. -
Emma Willard establishes a school for women
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The Mormon relgion founded
In 1830, Joseph Smith otganized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members are commonly called the Mormons. -
The Nat Turner Uprising
Nat Turner and his followers started a revolt and kill around 60 people before they, themselfs were killed. After southerners passed more stringent laws and controls regarding slavery. -
Garrison begins to print The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison published America's first antislavery newspaper called The Liberator. He used dramatic language to attract readers and cnocince them that slavery was morally wrong. -
Horace Mann becomes Superintendent of Massachusetts schools
Horace Mann led the Public School Reform Movement. He advanced the idea of free public schools that all children were requided by law to attend. Mann also led the fight to abolish physical punishment. -
Fredrick Douglas escapes slavery
Frederick Douglasswas born a slave and escaped n 1838. He shared his experiences as a slave at an antislavery convention. He wrote and autobiography called Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass. -
Brooks Farm founded
Brooks Farm was founded in 1841 by a group of Transcendentalist thinkers led by George Ripley. They sought to combine physical and intellectual labor. It was only open for six years due to financial problems. -
Thoreau writes Civil Disobedience
In Cicil Disobedience, Henry Thoreau argues that a person must be true to his or her own conscience. -
Dorthea Dix begins her work in prisons, hospitals, and asylums
Dorothea Dix campaigned for 40 years to win better, more humane treatment for people with mental illness. She helped to establish state mental hospitals in 15 states. She also worked to improve prisons. -
Margaret Fuller wites Women in the 19th Century
Margret too a role in developing Transcendentalist thought. She belived that women's pwers of intellect were equal to those of men. She wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century, which provided an intellectual basis for the budding women's right movement, -
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention is the nation's first Women's Rights Convention. Both mand and women attended, one of the most popular being Fredrick Douglass. -
Married women's property act passed
New York passed the Maried Women's Property Act in 1848. It guaranteed many property right fro women. -
Amelia Bloomer begins to publish The Lily
Amelia Bloomer attended the Seneca Falls Convention.Being inspired by this she published a newspaper called The LIly, in which she advocated equality of womin in all things. -
Neil Dow passes the Maine law
Neal Dow earned a worldwide reputation for his lectures on alcohol abouse. He became the mayor of Portland, Mail and he succeeded in securing the passage of the Maine Law, which restricted the sale of alcohol. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin
In the story Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrights about a save named Tom and how even though he lost his family and ending up in possession of a cruel man, he remains kind. This story led many early readers to think of slaves as people. -
Harriet Tubman escapes bondage and begins to work for the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was one of the most courageous conductors in the Underground Railroad. Also known as Black Moses, Tubman made alomst two dozen trips into the South, guiding hundreds of slaves to safety. -
The 13th Amendment
In 1862 the United States Constitution added the 13th amendment, which outlaws slavery. -
The 18th Amendment
In 1917 the Us Constitution adobted the 18th Amendment, which established prohibation in the United States. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment states that everyone has a right to vote no matter what sex you are.
