Important Dates

Question 1

Year of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Answer 1

1776

Question 2

Year of Noah Webster’s Spelling Book

Answer 2

1783

Question 3

Year of Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

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

Answer 4

1800

Question 5

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

Answer 5

1814

Question 6

Year of North American Review periodical established

Answer 6

1815

Question 7

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

Answer 7

1820

Question 8

Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy

Answer 8

1821

Question 9

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

Answer 9

1821

Question 10

Year of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers

Answer 10

1823

Question 11

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

Answer 11

1824

Question 12

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

Answer 12

1826

Question 13

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

Answer 13

1827

Question 14

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

Answer 14

1827

Question 15

Year of Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language

Answer 15

1828

Question 16

Year of William Apess’s A Son of the Forest

Answer 16

1829

Question 17

Year of The Book of Mormon

Answer 17

1830

Question 18

Year of Godey’s Lady’s Book

Answer 18

1830-1898

Question 19

Year of William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator; newspapers

Answer 19

1831

Question 20

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

Answer 20

1831

Question 21

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

Answer 21

1833

Question 22

Year of Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiak’s Autobiography

Answer 22

1833

Question 23

Year of Southern Literary Messenger periodical established

Answer 23

1834

Question 24

Year of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Answer 24

1835-1838

Question 25

Year of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature

Answer 25

1836

Question 26

Year of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar

Answer 26

1837

Question 27

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

Answer 27

1837

Question 28

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

Answer 28

1840

Question 29

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

Answer 29

1845

Question 30

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

Answer 30

1845

Question 31

Year of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven

Answer 31

1845

Question 32

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

Answer 32

1848

Question 33

Year of Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail

Answer 33

1849

Question 34

Year of Fugitive Slave Law; Compromise of ____

Answer 34

1850

Question 35

Year of Susan Warner’s The Wide Wide World

Answer 35

1850

Question 36

Year of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Answer 36

1850

Question 37

Year of Harper’s Weekly magazine established

Answer 37

1850

Question 38

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

Answer 38

1851

Question 39

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

Answer 39

1852

Question 40

Year of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden;

Answer 40

1854

Question 41

Year of Maria Susanna Cummin’s The Lamplighter

Answer 41

1854

Question 42

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

Answer 42

1854

Question 43

Year of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass;

Answer 43

1855

Question 44

Year of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha

Answer 44

1855

Question 45

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

Answer 45

1858

Question 46

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

Answer 46

1861

Question 47

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

Answer 47

1861

Question 48

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

Answer 48

1862

Question 49

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

Answer 49

1862

Question 50

Year of Slave Songs of the United States

Answer 50

1867

Question 51

Year of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Answer 51

1869

Question 52

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

Answer 52

1876

Question 53

US Population in 1800

Answer 53

5 million

Question 54

US Population in 1850

Answer 54

23 million

Question 55

US Population in 1860

Answer 55

30 million

Question 56

US Population in 1865

Answer 56

36 million