The Era of Reform JessicaL5 By jessical14 Jan 1, 1820 Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening Jan 1, 1820 Horace Mann makes progress in improving public education Jan 1, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper Jan 1, 1837 Oberlin College is the first school to accept women as well as men Jan 1, 1840 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend and meet at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London Jan 1, 1841 Dorothea Dix discovers the horrors that the mentally ill and prisoners face Jan 1, 1841 George Ripley founds Brook Farm, a utopian community Jul 19, 1848 300 people participate in the Seneca Falls Conference
