Chapter 14 By fodroca08 Dec 24, 1816 Allen became first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Dec 24, 1817 Thomas Gallaudet founded the forst fr school ofr the hearing-impaired Dec 24, 1831 Samule Howe opened the Perkins School Dec 24, 1832 New York City suffered cholera epidemics Dec 24, 1835 Oberlin was first college to let African Americans go their Dec 24, 1837 Horace Mann became Massachusetts first seretary of education Dec 24, 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention Dec 24, 1841 Dorothea Dix visited people in prison Dec 24, 1844 New York created the first city police force Dec 24, 1845 Rules of baseball were formalized Dec 24, 1848 Germans created harsh rule Dec 24, 1849 New York City suffered cholera epidemics Dec 24, 1849 Boston health committe reported that low wages forced most irish immigrants to live in poor housin Dec 24, 1849 Nativists founded a political organization Dec 24, 1855 blacks and whites could start to attend school together