Chapter 12 Timeline Exercise

correct incorrect Aug Cane Ridge, Kentucky, evangelical revival held

correct incorrect Jan American Colonization Society founded

correct incorrect Feb Liberia is founded as a colony for freed American slaves

correct incorrect Jun Denmark Vesey arrested for organizing a slave conspiracy in Charleston, SC

correct incorrect Charles Grandison Finney leads his first revival

correct incorrect Robert Dale Owen founds utopian colony in New Harmony, IN

correct incorrect American Temperance Society founded

correct incorrect David Walker publishes An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

correct incorrect Angelina Grimké joins her sister Sarah in Philadelphia where they become leading women's rights and antislavery activists

correct incorrect Apr Joseph Smith founds the Mormon Church

correct incorrect William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator, America's leading abolitionist newspaper

correct incorrect Nat Tuner leads the deadliest slave rebellion in U.S. history in Southampton County, VA

correct incorrect Massachusetts is the last state to disestablish support of an official church

correct incorrect Charles Grandison Finney assumes residency of Oberlin College

correct incorrect American Anti-Slavery Society is organized under Garrisonian principles

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Britain begins ending slavery in the British West Indies

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ottoman Empire recognizes independence of Egypt

correct incorrect Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Vol. 1 of Democracy in America

correct incorrect James Gordon Bennett begins publishing the New York Herald

correct incorrect Abolitionist printer Elijah Lovejoy murdered in Alton, IL, by anti-abolitionist mob

correct incorrect Catherine Beecher and Angelina Grimké debate nature of women

correct incorrect Severe recession strikes United States

correct incorrect Frederick Douglass escapes slavery

correct incorrect Liberty Party nominates James G. Birney for president on an antislavery platform

correct incorrect Mormon founder Joseph Smith is killed in Illinois; Brigham Young leads Mormons to Utah

correct incorrect First telegraph sent between Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD

correct incorrect Liberty Party again nominates James G. Birney for president on antislavery platform

correct incorrect Frederick Douglass publishes first edition of his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Irish Potato Famine begins, inaugurating a decade of disease that kills 750,000 Irish and drives two million into exile

correct incorrect Lewis Tappan helps found American Missionary Association, which joins antislavery churches

correct incorrect Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead Seneca Falls Convention, which produces "Declaration of Sentiments" calling for women's rights

correct incorrect Free Soil Party nominates Martin Van Buren for president on platform opposing expansion of slavery in western territories

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nationalist movements occur in Italy, Germany, France, and Hungary

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

correct incorrect Nathanial Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter

correct incorrect Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick

correct incorrect Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

correct incorrect Walt Whitman publishes first edition of Leaves of Grass