Chapter Review: Timeline of Events

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1820–1850 Size, number, and diversity of northern cities grow; immigration surges
1823 Textile factory town built in Lowell, Massachusetts
1826 American Temperance Society founded
1827 First workingmen’s political party founded
1829 David Walker publishes Appeal . . .to the Colored Citizens
1830 Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon
September 1830 Charles Grandison Finney brings Second Great Awakening to Rochester, New York
1833 William Lloyd Garrison founds American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)
1837–1842 Panic of 1837
1839 American Anti-Slavery Society splits over the role of women in the society
1840 Liberty Party formed
World Anti-Slavery Convention, London
1842 Amy Post helps found the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society
1843 William Miller predicts Second Coming of Christ
1844 Congress funds construction of the first telegraph line
May 1844 Anti-immigrant violence rocks Philadelphia
1845 Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century
1845–1846 Irish potato famine
1846 Henry David Thoreau publishes Civil Disobedience
1848 Free-Soil Party formed
Frederick Douglass publishes the North Star
July 1848 Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention
1851 Maine prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages