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Cane Ridge Revival
Religious revival in Kentucky of almost 50,000 people -
Period: to
1801-1854
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Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Founded
Founded by Presbyterians and Congregationalists as a network of missionary and benevolent societies. -
American Bible Society Organized
Organized by Reverend Samuel John Mills and distributed bibles where churches and clergymen were scarce -
Colony of Liberia established
Established by the American Colonization Society in west Africa to send African Americans -
American Tract Society founded
The society distributed religious tracts. -
American Temperance Society Organized
Aim was to encourage abstinence from hard liquor. -
Evangelical Summit Meeting
Meeting between Beecher and Finney in New Lebanon, New York. Veecher threatened to stand on the state line if Finney attempted to bring his crusade into Connecticut. -
First Issue of "The Liberator" published
William Loyd Garrison's antislavery journal calling for immediate emancipation. -
American Ant-Slavery Society founded
Founded by Garrison and other aboliitionists . -
Beginning of Lane Theological Seminary Revivals
Theodore Dwight Weld instigates abolitionist revivals with students known as the "lane rebels" -
American Temperance Society Splits
American Temperance society splits into factions over whether the abstinence pledge should be extended to include beer and wine and whether presssure should be applied to producers and sellers of alcohol as well. -
Elijah Lovejoy killed
Lovejoy was an antislavery editor who was killed by a mob -
Massachusetts establishes a state board of education
Horace Mann's work to establish a state board of education paid off. -
American Anti-Slavery Convention
The Anti-Slavery society splits at the convention because women were not being treated as equal partners. Forms American And Foreign Anti-Slavery Society -
Liberty Party Organized
First abolitionist attempt to enter the electoral arena. -
Brook Farm community established
Transcendentalist community led by Ripley -
The North Star founded
Frederick Douglass's newspaper -
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's rights convention in New York where the Declaration of Sentiments was approved. -
Oneida community established
Founded by John Humphrey Noyes, believed the Second Coming has already occured so old moral rules didn't need to be followed. -
"Walden" published
Henry David Thoreau's book about the ideal of self-culture
