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Religious revival in Kentucky of almost 50,000 people
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Founded by Presbyterians and Congregationalists as a network of missionary and benevolent societies.
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Organized by Reverend Samuel John Mills and distributed bibles where churches and clergymen were scarce
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Established by the American Colonization Society in west Africa to send African Americans
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The society distributed religious tracts.
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Aim was to encourage abstinence from hard liquor.
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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.
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William Loyd Garrison's antislavery journal calling for immediate emancipation.
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Founded by Garrison and other aboliitionists .
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Theodore Dwight Weld instigates abolitionist revivals with students known as the "lane rebels"
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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.
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Lovejoy was an antislavery editor who was killed by a mob
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Horace Mann's work to establish a state board of education paid off.
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The Anti-Slavery society splits at the convention because women were not being treated as equal partners. Forms American And Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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First abolitionist attempt to enter the electoral arena.
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Transcendentalist community led by Ripley
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Frederick Douglass's newspaper
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Women's rights convention in New York where the Declaration of Sentiments was approved.
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Founded by John Humphrey Noyes, believed the Second Coming has already occured so old moral rules didn't need to be followed.
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Henry David Thoreau's book about the ideal of self-culture
