Major Events

Chapter 15 · 1790–1860

The Second Great Awakening spreads

1790s–1830s

Charles Finney's revivals peak

1820s–1830s

Joseph Smith founds Mormonism

1830

Garrison launches The Liberator

1831

Oberlin College admits women

1833

Brook Farm is founded

1841

Dorothea Dix campaigns for asylum reform

1840s

Douglass publishes his autobiography

1845

The Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Maine passes statewide prohibition

1851

Thoreau publishes "Civil Disobedience"

1849

American literary flowering

1850s