| A | B |
| Industrial Revolution | 1790-185 |
| Eli Whitney | Developed the Cotton Gin |
| Library of Congress | Founded in 1800 to register books |
| Louisiana Purchase | In 1803, added 820000 acres of land to US |
| Lewis and Clarke Explorations | 1804 to 1806 -- Exploration of Louisiana Teritory |
| Robert Fulton | Demonstrates "The Claremont" Steamboat on Hudson River 1807 |
| War of 1812 | War Between US and Great Britain, lasting 12 years |
| North American Review | Founded in 1815 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 -- slave state for non-slave state |
| Saturday Evening Post | Popular Magazine Founded in 1821 |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 Policy |
| Eerie Canal | Opens in 1825, connecting NY to the West |
| Baltimore-Ohio Railroad | Railroad started in 1828 -- Tom Thumb, the first steam locomotive travels at a max speed of 10mph |
| Samuel Morse | Invents the telegraph in 1836 |
| William Cullen Bryant | x |
| Edgar Allen Poe | x |
| James Fennimore Cooper | x |
| George Washington Irving | x |
| Noah Webster | x |
| Classicism | x |
| Romanticism | x |