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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817. This group of moderate abolitionists wished to transport freed slaves to Africa.
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In 1820, as a result of the Temperance movements, Maine was the first of 13 states to prohibit the selling and manufacturing of alcohol.
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In 1822, the American Colonization Society established Monrovia, Liberia as a place to send freed slaves to live. Only 12,000 African-Americans were settled in Monrovia from 1820 to 1860.
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In 1823, Charles Finney, a Presbytarian minister, began a series of revivals in upstate New York. Finney was one of the many religious leaders of the Second Great Awakening.
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Joseph Smith founded the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons, in 1830.
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The first issue of WIlliam Lloyd Webber's "The Liberator" was published on January 1, 1831, changing the future forever.
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In 1837, Mary Lyon founded one of the first colleges to accept women, Mt. Holyoke. This was one of the many colleges founded during the Second Great Awkening.
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In 1841, George Ripley, a protestant minister, founded Brook Farm, a communal experiment, in Massachusetts.
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On October 21, 1844, William Miller, a Millennianlism precher, predicted the second comiing would occur. He gained many followers by doing so and although nothing happened on this day, the Millerites continued as a new religion, the Seventh-Day Adventists.
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John Humphrey Noyes founded the Oneida Company in 1848. This cooperative community, which dedicated itself to becoming aperfect scoiety, in Oeida, New York became very controversial.
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The Seneca Falls Convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York. Many of the leaders of the Women's Rights Movement attended and the Declaration of Sentiments was written.