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A crowd of fifty thousand gathered at Cainridge, Kentucky.
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The American Bible Society distributed of 140,000 bibles.
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Finney conducted a series of successfull revivals of religion in New York.
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The American Temperance Society was founded, which made members take a pledge to abstain from drinking distilled beverages.
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An Evengelical sumit meeting between Beecher and Finney failed to reach and agreement.
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Charles Finney evangelized Rochester, New York.
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In New York a young clergyman published a report of ten thousand prostitutes in the city, this lead to asylums for abandoned women.
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Abolitionists found American Anti-Slavery Society. Was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
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Bombarded congress with petitions, mostly calling for the abolition of slavery in DC.
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Theadore Weld advocates abolition in upstate NY, and Ohio.
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ATS splits into smaller groups.
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Horace convinced the legislature to enact a state board of education.
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Abolitionists editor Elijah Lovejoy killed by a pro slavery mob.
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Bombarded congress with petitions, mostly calling for the abolition of slavery in DC.
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Garrison's American followers withdrew because they didnt accept women.
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The American Anit slavery society splits over womens rights and other issues.
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Transcendentalists organize a model comunity at Brook Farm.
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Feminists gather at Senica Falls, NY, and found the womens rights movement.
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was established in Oneida New York, and was inspired by an unorthadox brand of Christian perfectionalism.
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Henrey David Thoreau's Walden was publish.
