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Year of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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1776

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Year of Noah Webster’s Spelling Book

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1783

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Year of Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography

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1789

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Year of Library of Congress, the US national library, founded in Washington

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1800

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Year of Francis Scott Key’s The Star Spangled Banner patriotic poem/hymn

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1814

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Year of North American Review periodical established

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1815

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Year of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle wakes up in Sketch Book

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1820

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Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy

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1821

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Year of Sequoyah produces a Cherokee syllabary making reading and writing possible

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1821

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Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers

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1823

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Year of Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times

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1824

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Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans

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1826

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Year of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts;

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1827

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Year of African American owned and operated Freedom’s Journalnewspaper established

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1827

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Year of Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language

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1828

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Year of William Apess’s A Son of the Forest

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1829

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Year of The Book of Mormon

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1830

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Year of Godey’s Lady’s Book

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1830-1898

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Year of William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator; newspapers

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1831

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Year of Samuel Francis Smith’s patriotic hymn America sung on July 4 in Boston

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1831

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Year of William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”

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1833

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Year of Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiak’s Autobiography

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1833

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Year of Southern Literary Messenger periodical established

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1834

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Year of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

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1835-1838

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Year of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature

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1836

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Year of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar

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1837

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Year of Sec. of Edu. Horace Mann advocates public edu. and literacy

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1837

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Year of Margaret Fuller, editor of the Transcendentalist Club’s The Dial

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1840

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Year of Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth-Century

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1845

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Year of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass

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1845

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Year of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven

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1845

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Year of “Declaration of Sentiments” Women’s Rights convention, Seneca Falls, NY

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1848

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Year of Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail

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1849

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Year of Fugitive Slave Law; Compromise of ____

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1850

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Year of Susan Warner’s The Wide Wide World

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1850

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Year of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

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1850

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Year of Harper’s Weekly magazine established

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1850

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Year of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick; or, The Whale

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1851

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Year of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1852

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Year of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden;

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1854

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Year of Maria Susanna Cummin’s The Lamplighter

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1854

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Year of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta

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1854

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Year of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass;

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1855

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Year of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha

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1855

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Year of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish

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1858

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Year of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride

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1861

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Year of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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1861

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Year of Emily Dickinson writes most of her poetry; over 300 poems this year

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1862

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Year of Julia Ward Howe’s The Battle Hymn of the Republic patriotic hymn

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1862

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Year of Slave Songs of the United States

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1867

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Year of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

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1869

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Year of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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1876

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US Population in 1800

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5 million

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US Population in 1850

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23 million

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US Population in 1860

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30 million

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US Population in 1865

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36 million

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