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Shakers begin religous movement
Begun in 1747, the members looked to women for leadership. Jane Wardley and Ann Lee were the most important. Jane Wardley was an articulate preacher who urged her followers to repent. By 1774, Ann Lee and some eight of her followers had immigrated to America, settling in New York. There they preached their doctrines and won a surprising following. -
Massive Revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
The Restoration Movement developed from several independent efforts to return to apostolic Christianity, but two groups, which independently developed similar approaches to the Christian faith, were particularly important to the development of the movement. The first, led by Barton W. Stone, began at Cane Ridge, Kentucky and called themselves simply "Christians". The second began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia (now West Virginia) and was led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexand -
Beecher helps promote revivales.
Using his own homespun versions of Taylor's doctrine of free agency, Beecher induced thousands-in his home church in Litchfeild, Connecticut, and hin other churches that offered him their pulpits-to acknowledge their sinfulness and surrender to God. -
American Bible Society Formed
Reverand Samuel John Mills took the leading rioloe in organizing the American Bible Society and by 1821, the society and distributed 140,000 bibles, mostly in parts of the west where churches and clergymen were scarce. -
American Temperance Society organized
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was a society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA. Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S. with 170,000 members who had taken a pledge to abstain from drinking distilled beverages. Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,500,000 members who had taken the pledge. -
Charles G. Finney evangelizes Rochester, New York
He moved to New York City in 1832 where he ministered the Chatham Street Chapel, and he later founded and preached at the Broadway Tabernacle, known today as Broadway United Church of Christ. Finney's presentation of the gospel message reached thousands and influenced many communities. -
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of the Liberator
Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of January 1, 1866. Although its circulation was only about 3,000, and three-quarters of subscribers were African Americans in 1834, the newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. Garrison set the tone for the paper in his famous open letter "To the Public" in th -
Abolitionists found American Anti-Slavery Society
The first was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. In 1839, a successor organisation was formed, committed to worldwide abolition. Its official name was The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. This continues today as Anti-Sl -
Theodore Weld advocates abolition in Ohio and upstate New York
Weld atrted to advocate abolition in Ohio and New qork, telling about how it was evil. Weld remained dedicated to the abolitionist movement until slavery was ended by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. -
American Temprance Society splits into factions
People started beliveing different things and started creating different religous protesant groups like Methodists. -
McGuffey's Electic Readers first appeared in 1836
A series of graded primers that were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. -
Massachusetts establishes a state board of education
The BOE was established in 1837 and is the oldest state board of education in the United States. Governor Edward Everett had recommended the establishment of a board of education in his address to the 1837 legislature's opening session. -
Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy killed by a proslavery mob
The leaders of the mob set up a ladder against the warehouse. They sent a boy up with a torch to set fire to the wooden roof. Lovejoy and his supporter Royal Weller went outside, surprised the pro-slavery partisans, pushed over the ladder and retreated back inside the warehouse. The mob put up the ladder again; when Lovejoy and Weller went out to overturn it, they were spotted. Lovejoy was hit five times with slugs from a shotgun and died immediately; Weller was wounded. -
Dorthea Dix starts devoting herself to prper treatments of people in Insane Asylums
She was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses. -
AMerican Anti-Slavery Society splits over women's rights and other issues
Women who advocated right of blacks started advocating rights for themselves which caused other member of the American Anti-Slavery Society to choose sides and split. -
Transcendentalists organize a model community at Brook Farm
Brook Farm, as it would be called, was based on the ideals of Transcendentalism; its founders believed that by pooling labor they could sustain the community and still have time for literary and scientific pursuits -
North Star Newpaper created
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass published the North Star until June 1851, when Douglass and Gerrit Smith agreed to merge the North Star with the Liberty Party Paper (based out of Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass's Paper. -
Feminists gather at Senneca Falls, New York
The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Boston-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her speaking ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time. The local women, primarily members of a radical Quaker group, organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a skeptical non-Quaker who followed logic. -
Oneida Community Formed
The community believed that Jesus Christ had already returned in the year 70, making it possible for them to bring about Christ's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just Heaven (a belief called Perfectionism). The Oneida Community practiced Communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism and Ascending Fellowship. -
Henry David Thoreau's Walden published
It is an American book written by noted Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance.
