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Shakers Established
Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee brought her radical beliefs of the Millennial church/United Society of Believers to the United States. Her and her followers founded their own utopian commune. -
Timothy Dwight become president of Yale College
Alarmed by the younger generations strange beliefs, he devoted his time at the estate rivalizing numerous young scholars. This had started the Second Great Awakening in the north. -
Gathering at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
Nearly fifty thousand people gathered to listen to the historical preachings. This had marked the beginning of the Second Great Awakening. -
American bible Society
Reerend Samuel John Mills founded the American bible society, which by 1821 distributed 140,00 bibles across the country. The bibles were mostly sent to parts of the west where churches and clergymen were scarce. -
American Colonization Society
Organization was founded in an attempt to weed slave owners out of the institute by transporting slaves over to Africa. The plan had colonized numerous ex-slave into the continent, but was stopped by free northern slaves who opposed such discrimination. -
Charles Finny's revivals
At this time, charles Finny began a series of highly successful revivals in the towns and cities of western New York. He did this using a variety of new methods. -
American tract Society
Founded in 1825, this went beyond the reach of regular churches and targetted saemen, Native americans, and urban poor. -
Finny vs. Beecher
Beecher was disturbed by finny's methods of emotionalism, and an outcry broke out when Beecher and his followers heard that Finny approved of women praying allowd in church. In lebanon, New York, a summit meeting was held of the two, but agreements were failed to be made, eventually leading to Beecher's threats towards Finny. -
The Liberator
Lloyd Garrison began to anti-slavory movment in bostin when he published a jounral called the liberator. Not only did it demand immediate emancipation, he accused the Colonization project just a way for slaveholders to rid troublesome slaves. -
Anti-Slavory Society
Garrison and his fellow abolishionists established the society. Much of the member had came from the Colonization movement's followers. -
Temerance Society Split
the society split over two issues: whether or not the abstinence pledge should include beer and wine, and whether pressure should be applied to sellers of such products. -
"Gag Rule"
Southerners in congress participated in the "gag rule", which would table any abolitionist petitions. At the same time southern postal offices refused to carry antislavery literature into the south. -
Horace Mann's purposals
Mann was probably the most influential person of the common school movement. He work tirelessly to establish a state board of education and appropriate tax funds. In 1837, he finally convinced legislature to follow thorugh with his planns. -
Dorothea Dix
Between 1838 and the civil war, she devoted her time and power into the reformation of institutes of the mentally ill. Known to be the most practicle of the reformers of the pre-civil war period. Fifteen states had opened asylums in her honor. -
National Convention of the Anti-Slavory Society
Garrison's convention protested slavory, but it had also put a stand on it's place on women's rights, and numerous women had participated in the event. -
Liberty Party
The party was the first attempt of abolitionists to enter the political ring, and turn the abolitionist statement into a political power. -
Brook Farm established
Transcendentalists who rejected Emerson's radical individualism founded the cooperative community at Brook Farm in Massachusettes. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Organized in New York by Stanton and Mott. This marked the first national gathering of feminists and the modern movement of gender equality. this convention demanded women's right to vote and for married women to be free from unjust laws. -
Oneida community
The utopian commune was established at Oneida, New York. the group beleived the second coming of Christ had already happened, hence, they were free to disregard moral that were previously practiced like marraige.