Lyceum movement begins

David Walker’s Appeal … to the Colored Citizens of the World

Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon

Emergence of minstrelsy shows

William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator

Nat Turner’s uprising in Virginia

Ralph Waldo Emerson turns to transcendentalism

Garrison organizes American Anti-Slavery Society

New York activists create Female Moral Reform Society

Abolitionists launch great postal campaign, sparking series of antiabolitionist riots

House of Representatives adopts gag rule

Grimké sisters defend public roles for women

Liberty Party runs James G. Birney for president

Fourierist communities arise in Midwest

Dorothea Dix promotes hospitals for mentally ill

Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Henry David Thoreau goes to Walden Pond

Brigham Young leads Mormons to Salt Lake

Seneca Falls Convention proposes women’s equality

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick

Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dr. Sanger surveys sex trade in New York City

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

“Mormon War” over polygamy