1814 Mill owner Francis Cabot Lowell introduced power loom into American textile industry at Boston Manufacturing Company, Waltham, Massachusetts
Edition of Madame de Stäel's De L'Allemagne published in New York
1815 George Ticknor and Edward Everett went to Europe to study
1817 Work began on Erie Canal
Edward Everett first American to receive Ph.D. at University of Göttingen in Germany
Coleridge's Biographia Literaria published
Henry David Thoreau born (died 1862)
1819 Missouri requested admission to Union as slave state
William Ellery Channing delivered "Unitarian Christianity" sermon
Poet Walt Whitman born (died 1892)
Author Herman Melville born (died 1891)
1820 Missouri Compromise
William Ellery Channing organized Berry Street Conference
1821 First American settlement in Texas
The Christian Register established
1823 Monroe Doctrine
The Pioneers, the first of Cooper's Leatherstocking Series, published (series continued until 1841)
Charles Ingersoll delivered "Discourse Concerning the Influence of America on the Mind"
1824 Weavers in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, went on strike over decreasing wages and increasing hours
Harmony Society reestablished in Pennsylvania in the community named Economy
1825 Erie Canal opened
American Unitarian Association established
Equal rights lecturer Frances Wright moved from England to America
Robert Owen founded New Harmony (first secular utopian community in America) in Indiana
Coleridge's Aids to Reflection published
