Timeline and Terms

Events

American Anti-Slavery Society founded
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded
Angelina Grimké’s petition at Boston State House
Appropriation to “civilize” American Indians
Bureau of Indian Affairs established
Charles Grandison Finney’s religious conversion
Dorothea Dix galvanized
Emerson’s “American Scholar” speech
Erie Canal construction
Establishment of Brook Farm
Female Medical College opened
First high school for girls
First Married Women’s Property Act
First National Women’s Rights convention
First secular utopian community
First US woman to receive medical degree
First woman to keep maiden name
First women’s college
First women’s rights pamphlet
Frances Wright in the US
Joseph Smith murdered
Liberia founded
Lincoln nominated for president
Maine Laws
Massachusetts high school requirement enacted
Mormon Church founded
Mormons in Utah
Oberlin College founded
Origin of Species
Panic of 1837
Property rights for women in New York
School for the deaf founded in Hartford
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention
Sewing machine invented
Ten-hour work day

People

Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Charles Fourier
Charles Sumner
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Horace Greeley
Horace Mann
James Monroe
John C. Frémont
Joseph Smith
Julia Ward Howe
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Stone
Mary Edwards Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Allen
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Sylvester Graham
Theodore Dwight Weld
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Wendell Phillips
William Clark
William Wells Brown

Places

Brook Farm
Erie Canal
Harpers Ferry
Liberia
Nashoba Colony
New Harmony
Oneida Community
Seneca Falls

Organizations

American Colonization Society
Liberator
transcendentalists
utopian communities