The Era of Reform JessicaL5

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  • Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening

    Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening

  • Horace Mann makes progress in improving public education

  • William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper

    William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper

  • Oberlin College is the first school to accept women as well as men

  • Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend and meet at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London

  • Dorothea Dix discovers the horrors that the mentally ill and prisoners face

    Dorothea Dix discovers the horrors that the mentally ill and prisoners face

  • George Ripley founds Brook Farm, a utopian community

    George Ripley founds Brook Farm, a utopian community

  • 300 people participate in the Seneca Falls Conference