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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINE Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1782

  • St. Jean de Crèvecoeur publishes Letters from an American Farmer

  • Virginia manumission law (repealed 1792)
1783

  • Noah Webster publishes his “blue-back speller”
1784

  • Slavery ends in Massachusetts

  • Northern states begin gradual emancipation
1787

  • Benjamin Rush writes Thoughts on Female Education
1790s

  • States grant corporations charters and special privileges

  • Private companies build roads and canals to facilitate trade

  • Merchants expand rural outwork system

  • Chesapeake blacks adopt Protestant beliefs

  • Parents limit family size as farms shrink

  • Second Great Awakening expands church membership
1791

  • Congress charters first Bank of the United States
1792

  • Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1795

  • Massachusetts Mill Dam Act
1800

  • Gabriel Prosser plots slave rebellion in Virginia
1800s

  • Rise of sentimentalism and of companionate marriages

  • Women’s religious activism

  • Founding of female academies

  • Religious benevolence sparks social reform
1801

  • Cane Ridge revival in Kentucky
1816

  • Congress charters Second Bank of the United States
1817

  • Prominent whites create American Colonization Society
1819

  • Plummeting agricultural prices set off financial panic
1819–1821

  • Missouri Compromise
1820s

  • States reform education

  • Women become schoolteachers

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: The timeline mentions books by four authors (Crèvecoeur, Webster, Rush, and Wollstonecraft) and two other entries relating to education. Based on the materials in Chapter 8, what might account for this blossoming of American literary and educational life?