Chapter 14 History

By benneja08

  • Moby Dick is Published

  • The Second Great Awakening

  • Thomas Gallaudet opened the first school for the hearing impaired

  • Women's colleges start opening

  • Inspired Abolitions

  • William Lloyd Garrison started the newspaper the Liberator

  • New York City Epidemic

  • Oberlin College starts allowing African Americans

  • Mann became first secretary of education

  • Immigrants from Germany and Ireland coming to America

  • Utopian Communities started up

  • New York's first police force created

  • Low wages forced Irish to live in poor living conditions

  • Nativists founded the Know-Nothing party

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter

  • African Americans and Whites start school together