| Term | Definition |
|---|
| True Relation | Captain John Smith. 1608 |
| King James Bible | 1611 |
| History of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford. 1630 |
| History of New England | John Winthrop. 1630. |
| The Tenth Muse. | Anne Bradstreet. 1650. |
| Poor Richard's Almanac. | Benjamin Franklin. 1732 |
| Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God | Johnathan Edwards. 1741 |
| Experiments and Observations in Electricity. | Benjamin Franklin. 1751 |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America. | Phillis Wheatley. 1773 |
| Declaration of Independance | Thomas Jefferson. 1776 |
| The Crisis and Common Sense | Thomas Paine. 1776 |
| First American dictionary | Noah Webster. 1783. |
| Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson. 1785 |
| Letters of Jonathan Old style and Gent and Salmagundi | Washington Irving. 1807 |
| A History of New York. | Washington Irving. 1808 |
| The Spy, The Last of the Mohicans [FIRST AMERICAN NOVELIST] | James Fenimor Cooper. 1820 |
| Tamerlane and Other Poems | Edgar Allen Poe. 1827 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher and Grotesque And Arabesque | Edgar Allen Poe. 1839 |
| Essays: First Series [TRANSINDENTALISM] | Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1841 |
| The Raven and Other Poems. | Edgar Allen Poe. 1845 |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. | Frederick Douglass. 1845 |
| Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1850 |
| Representative Man | Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1850 |
| The House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1851 |
| Moby Dick | Melville. 1851 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin. | Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1852 |
| Walden | Thoreau. 1854 |
| My Bondage and My Freedom | Frederick Douglass. 1855 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman. 1855 |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin. 1859 |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer. | Mark Twain. 1876 |
| Phonograph and Light Bulb | Thomas Edison. 1878 |
| The Red Badge of Courage. | Stephen Crane. 1895 |
| Spanish American War. | 1898 |
| Model-T Ford. | Henry Ford. 1903 |
| Titanic sinks | 1912 |
| World War I begins | 1914 |
| Bolshevik Revolution | 1917 |
| World War I ends | 1918 |
| Prohibition Act becomes law | 1920 |
| Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. | Robert Frost. 1923 |
| Great Depression | 1929 |
| Harlem Renaissance | Late 1920s - 1930s |
| Hitler in Europe | 1932 |
| World War II begins | 1939 |
| Korean War | 1950 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison. 1951 |
| Korean War ends | 1953 |
| McCarthyism | 1954 |
| JFK elected president | 1961 |
| Assassination of MLK Jr. and Robert Kennedy | 1968 |
| 1st moon landing | 1969 |
| Watergate | 1971 |
| Berlin Wall is torn down | 1989 |
| Desert Storm | 1991 |
| 9/11 | 2001 |
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