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Second Great Awakening is starting
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first free American school for hearing impaired people
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The abolition movement is starting
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Temperance movement is started
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American Anti Slavery Society is formed
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Oberlin college becomes first to accept African Americans
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Horace Mann becomes Massachusetts first secretary of education
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The Potato Blight
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New York created first city police
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A failed German Revolution
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low wages forced most immigrants to live in poor housing
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Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
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New York suffered cholera epidemics
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Know Nothing Party is founded
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Middle class is formed