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Massive Revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
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The Second Great Awakening begins.
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A rise for the desire in public education occurs through the 1820's and 1830's.
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In 1821 the American Peace Society created a colony in Liberia, in order to settle thousands of African Americans.
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The American Temperance Society is organized.
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Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester, New York.
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator.
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Abolitionists found American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Theodore Weld advocates abolition in Ohio and upstate New York.
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American Temperance Society split into factions.
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Massachusettes establishes a board of education.
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Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy killed by a proslavery mob.
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American Anti-Slavery Society split over women's rights and other issues.
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Transcendentalists organize a model community at Brook Farm.
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Feminists gather at Seneca Falls, New York, and found the women's rights movement.
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Henry David Thoreau's Walden is published.