A. American History literature

By jennifer17garcia

  • Population

    Population of the American colonies: about 275,000 people. Boston has 7,000 people and New York 5,000.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin leaves Boston for Philadelphia, a trip that he chronicles in his Autobiography.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Franklin purchases and publishes the Pennsylvania Gazette, which later becomes The Saturday Evening Post.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Franklin's Junto club establishes the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first circulating library in the US.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity.

  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine, Common Sense

  • Franklin

    Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

  • Olaudah Equiano

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Adultery was an extremely risque subject,

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    The Supreme Court upholds the "separate but equal" doctrine.

  • slavery

    Laws restricting the travel of slaves and banning miscegenation are enacted in New York, Massachusetts, and Virginia