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American Tract Society is founded.

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Gold Rush hits California after gold is found at Sutter's Mill. Brings thousands of people to California.

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Notable participants in the Southwest Humor genre were Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, and George Washington Harris. Southwest Humor consisted of various stories and sketches that depicted over-the-top moments or moments that didn't even happen. The audience was made to feel as if they had a handle on who the characters were and where the story was going, but by the end were made to feel foolish by turning the depiction of stereotypes around.

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Kezia Coffin was the world's first American millionaire. She successfully took over her husband's business while he was away.

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The first bank is established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Declaration of Independence is signed and published. This important piece of work in American history was authored by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman. It also declared America's independence from Britain.

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The First Great Awakening starts. Period of religious rebirth in which people changed the meaning of their relationships with God. More of a personal connection and less reliant on the church.

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Yale College is founded

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Rhode Island passes law that bans slavery but is never enforced due to high demand for cheap goods

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Seneca Falls Convention: First Women's Movement convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped lead the convention and shared her Declaration of Sentiments. An attempt to help give women the right to vote.

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President Abraham Lincoln (elected 1860) delivers Gettysburg Address, a notable political speech in US history. Draws on declarations of human equality ("All men are created equal). Connects to the Civil War.

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Anne Hutchinson is excommunicated and banished from Massachusetts for teaching controversial religious views

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Written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Date: 1848
Genre: Women's movement
Significance: Temperance Movement

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Written by Susanna Rowson
Date: 1791
Genre: Domestic novel
Significance: First American bestseller

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Written by Benjamin Franklin
Date: 1791
Genre: American Autobiography

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Written by Benjamin Franklin
Date: December 28th, 1733
Genre: Almanac
Significance: recipe book for common people who couldn't afford to buy most books. Made to be enjoyed by masses.

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Written by Edgar Allen Poe
Date: 1845
Genre: Poem
Significance: This poem reflects on grief, mourning, and loss for Poe

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Started in 1835
Genre: Southwest humor, Almanac
Significance: Made for a more educated community. Turned stereotypes around and made the reader or viewer feel stupid for their assumptions made about certain characters and not understanding jokes.

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Written by Washington Irving
Published in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (1820)
Genre: Gothic, Horror, Supernatural, Short Story
Significance: One of America's first supernatural stories

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Written by Herman Melville
Date: 1888
Genre: Poem
Significance: Characterization of shark as a mindless eating machine, Melville was outcasted for writing Moby Dick

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Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Date: 1775
Genre: American Poetry
Significance: Fireside Poets, Schoolhouse Poets

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Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Date: 1775
Genre: American Poetry
Significance: The strategy of how human pride can lead to horrible outcomes

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Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- published in The New England Magazine (1835)
- published in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Genre: Short story
Significance: Salem Witch Trials

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Written by Phillis Wheatley
Published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Date: 1773
Genre: American (African) Poetry
Significance: First African American poet

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Written by Samuel Sewall
Date: 1700
Genre: Amereican Anti-Slavery Tract
Significance: First American Anti-Slavery Tract, negates biblical arguments in support of slavery

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Written by Anne Bradstreet
Date: 1667
Genre: American Poetry
Significance: Depiction of nature, God, and human and the connection to being a poet and a woman.

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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Written by Anne Bradstreet
Date: 1650
Genre: American Poetry
Significance: First American Poet

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Written by John Winthrop
Date: 1638
Genre: Sermon (Secular, Jeremiad)
Significance: New Israelities, City on a Hill, American Exceptionalism