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U.S. History

Methodists number 4,921

Constitutional Convention

Baptists number 35,101; Francis Asbury ordained as America’s first Methodist bishop

Washington reelected unanimously; Kentucky statehood; Whitney’s cotton gin invented

First Methodist awakenings in North, West, and South

Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason

James McGready begins revivals in Logan County, Kentucky; Bishop Asbury begins annual circuits from Maine to Georgia and along the Western frontier

Tennessee statehood

McGee brothers inspire revivals in Kentucky

Revivals in Gaspar River and Mud River, Kentucky

Thomas Jefferson becomes third president

Cane Ridge, Kentucky, revival under Barton Stone

Louisiana Purchase doubles size of the United States

Revival at Yale under Timothy Dwight; collegiate awakenings throughout East

Lewis and Clark expedition explores West

Shakers send missionaries to frontier

First successful steamboat

Founding of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, America’s first foreign missions society

War with England

American Bible Society formed

Seminole wars

American Sunday School Union begun

Missouri Compromise

Charles Finney begins seven years of intense evangelism in the Northeast

Santa Fe Trail opens

American Tract Society and American Home Missionary Society begun

Monroe Doctrine

Lane Seminary founded in frontier Cincinnati to provide clergy for the West

Erie Canal opens

Finney’s greatest revival, at Rochester, New York; Joseph Smith founds Mormons

Indians removed across the Mississippi

Founding of Oberlin College, ...