Important Dates Flashcards
Year of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
1776
Year of Noah Webster’s Spelling Book
1783
Year of Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography
1789
Year of Library of Congress, the US national library, founded in Washington
1800
Year of Francis Scott Key’s The Star Spangled Banner patriotic poem/hymn
1814
Year of North American Review periodical established
1815
Year of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle wakes up in Sketch Book
1820
Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy
1821
Year of Sequoyah produces a Cherokee syllabary making reading and writing possible
1821
Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers
1823
Year of Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times
1824
Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans
1826
Year of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts;
1827
Year of African American owned and operated Freedom’s Journalnewspaper established
1827
Year of Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language
1828
Year of William Apess’s A Son of the Forest
1829
Year of The Book of Mormon
1830
Year of Godey’s Lady’s Book
1830-1898
Year of William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator; newspapers
1831
Year of Samuel Francis Smith’s patriotic hymn America sung on July 4 in Boston
1831
Year of William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
1833
Year of Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiak’s Autobiography
1833