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

Connecticut lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the definitive 2-volume scholarly edition of his American Dictionary of the English Language

The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper

Adult white males now have the vote in almost all the states of the USA

Andrew Jackson, elected president of the USA, introduces the era known as Jacksonian democracy

20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems

The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies

A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north

Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard

Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi

The Book of Mormon, translated from miraculously discovered holy tablets, is published by their finder Joseph Smith

Samuel Francis Smith's patriotic hymn America is sung for the first time on July 4 in Boston

Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party

Nat Turner leads a revolt by fellow slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, killing 59 whites and provoking more repressive legislation

Evangelical preacher Charles Grandison Finney leads a new wave of revivalism in the northeastern states

The USA suffers the first of several cholera epidemics, spanning the sixty years to 1892

Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery

Benjamin Henry Day establishes a new penny daily in New York, the Sun, which lasts until 1966

The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers

The opponents of US president Andrew Jackson, mockingly called King Andrew, become known as the Whig party

American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances

The New York Sun gains new readers with a convincing report that astronomer John Herschel has observed men and animals on the moon

A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains

The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances