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America’s History: Value Edition: Printed Page 332

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINE

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1826	Lyceum movement begins
1829	David Walker’s Appeal … to the Colored Citizens of the World
1830	Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon
1830s	Emergence of minstrelsy shows
1831	William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator Nat Turner’s uprising in Virginia
1832	Ralph Waldo Emerson turns to transcendentalism
1833	Garrison organizes American Anti-Slavery Society
1834	New York activists create Female Moral Reform Society
1835	Abolitionists launch great postal campaign, sparking series of antiabolitionist riots
1836	House of Representatives adopts gag rule
1837	Grimké sisters defend public roles for women
1840	Liberty Party runs James G. Birney for president
1840s	Fourierist communities arise in Midwest
1841	Dorothea Dix promotes hospitals for mentally ill
1844	Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century
1845	Henry David Thoreau goes to Walden Pond
1846	Brigham Young leads Mormons to Salt Lake
1848	Seneca Falls Convention proposes women’s equality
1850	Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
1851	Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
1852	Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1855	Dr. Sanger surveys sex trade in New York City Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
1858	“Mormon War” over polygamy

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: Most of the entries here relate to events in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s. In your judgment, which is the most important event in each decade? Over all three decades? Write a coherent essay that justifies your choices and, if possible, relates those events to each other.