TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 11 REVIEW

1820–1850 Northern cities grow; immigration surges
1823 Lowell mills built
1826 American Temperance Society founded
1827 First workingmen’s political party founded
1829 David Walker publishes Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World
1830 Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon
1830–1831 Second Great Awakening in Rochester, New York
1833 William Lloyd Garrison founds American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)
1834 National Trades Union founded
1837–1842 Panic of 1837
1839 American Anti-Slavery Society splits over the role of women
1840 Liberty Party formed
World Anti-Slavery Convention, London
1844 Congress funds construction of the first telegraph line
May 1844 Anti-immigrant violence in 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
July 1848 Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention
1851 Maine prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages