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Shakers
Ann Lee brought over her religion from England, she created the Millenial Church, which believed her to be the female Messiah. THis religious group lived away from others and avoided contact with outsiders. -
Yale's President
Timothy Dwight, who went on to become a key figure in the Second Great Awakening, was made president of Yale College. -
Board Of Comissioners...
,,,For Foreign Missions, established by Presbyterians and Congregationalists, was founded. It soon after dispatched two missionaries to India. -
American Colonization Society
One of few benevolent anti-slavery groups, it attracted people who were morally against slavery. -
Liberia
Colony established in West Africa where a few thousand blacks settled after it was created by the American Colonization Society. -
American Bible Society
Reached a total of 140.000 bubles distributed, mainly in areas lacking preacher and ministers. -
American Temperance Society
Against the use of hard liquor and believed that it led to despair, trouble, and death. THey sponsored essay contests and sent out tones of information in order to convert people, and were very successful. -
Beecher And Finney Meet
IN New Lebanon, New York, Beecher and Finney have an evangelical meeting, in which they discuss issues, including Finney's encouragement of women plraying out loud in church. -
Finney Conducts Revival In Rochester
Finney spread his Christian ideals, based on moral and emotional reactions, through New York. Rochester was one of his most significant revivals. -
The Liberator Emerges
Written by William Llyod Garrison, the journal valled for immediate emancipation and was a key anti-slavery writing. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
Created by Harrison and other abolitionists, it took a defensive stand on the issue, and recruited many Northerners. -
Split of the Temperance Society
THe society split over two issues, which where whether to include beer and wine, and whether producers/sellers of wine should be to blame also. -
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers
Taught values and morals to children who often learned to read through this popular book that condemned sins and bad habits. -
Massachusetts Board Of Education
Established and headed by Horace Mann, it was one of his many institutions that helped to transform schools and education into what they are today. -
Dix Exploits Asylums
Dorothea Dix begins her fight to bring to light the horrible treatment given in prisons and insane asylums, Her work eventually leads to stricter observation in the current places, and building of new hospitals in several states. -
The Liberty Party
First attempt to turn the anti-slavery movement into an official political party that could participate more actively in politics. -
Brook Farm
Cooperative community in Massachusetts, they worked the same land, set up a excelent school, and lived in peace until it was reconstituted in 1845 -
Poem Showing "Correct" View Of Women
I would have her as pure as the snow on the mount--
As true as the smile that to infancy's given--
As pure as the wave of the crystalline fount,
Yet as warm in the heart as the sunlight of heaven. Expressed popular views that women were the "angels of the household" and were meant to teach virtue and head religion. -
Seneca Falls Convention
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Oneida Community
Th Oneida Community, established in New York, was led by John Humphrey Noyes. It was a branch of Christian perfectionism that disregarded moral laws and promoted "free love"
