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Chapter 12: The Fires Of Perfection |
1787 First Shaker commune established
1794 African American Bethel Church organized
1824 New Harmony established
1824-1837 Peak of revivals
1826 The Last of the Mohicans published
American Temperance Society founded
1830 Book of Mormon published
1830-1831 Finney’s revival at Rochester
1831 The Liberator commences publication: Garrison outlines new program of abolitionism
1833 American Anti-Slavery Society founded
Oberlin College admits women
1834 Lane Seminary rebellion
1835 Abolitionists’ postal campaign
1836 Transcendental Club established
1836 Gag rule passed: stimulates concern over civil liberties
1837 Massachusetts establishes state Board of Education: strengthens educational reform movement
Emerson’s address, "The American Scholar": call for independent national literature
Mount Holyoke Seminary commences classes: first women’s college
Elijah Lovejoy killed: anti-abolitionist violence
1838 Sarah Grimké’s Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes published: major document in the origins of feminism
1839 Nauvoo founded
1840 Schism of American Anti-Slavery Society: abolitionist movement crippled by internal divisions
Liberty Party founded: first antislavery third party
1843 Dorothea Dix’s report: movement for more humane treatment of the insane
1844 Joseph Smith murdered
Gag rule repealed: major victory for antislavery forces
1848 Oneida Community established
Seneca Falls Convention: beginning of women’s rights movement
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter published
1851 Maine adopts statewide prohibitory law: inaugurates drive for similar laws in other states
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick published
1854 Henry David Thoreau’s Walden published
1855 Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass published
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