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Events relating to north america
An informal financial market on Wall Street is transformed into the New York Stock and Exchange Board
Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians
The 49th parallel is agreed as the frontier between the USA and Canada
Spain sells Florida to the USA for $5 million, in return for the waiving of any American claim to Texas
Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book
The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate
7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine
The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company
The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
The Shaker settlements, now widespread in the US, form The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah
The Saturday Evening Post is launched in Philadelphia as a weekly to provide light Sunday reading
The Sante Fe Trail, from Missouri to New Mexico, is opened up by the US trader William Becknell
Stephen Austin begins the process of American settlement in the Mexican province of Texas
A heavenly being appears to Joseph Smith in New York state – an event which launches the Mormon church
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings'
An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus
US president James Monroe warns European nations against interfering in America, in the policy which becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine
The Republican party in the USA splits into National Republicans and Democratic Republicans
Work begins on the 363-mile Erie Canal that will link the Hudson River to Lake Erie
The English socialist Robert Owen purchases New Harmony from the Rappists, to test his utopian theories in a new context
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief
With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting
After little more than two years of quarrelsome existence, Robert Owen's community at New Harmony comes to an end
