1835 Treaty of Echota
Samuel F.B. Morse developed telegraph (patented 1840)
Dr. Channing's Slavery published
The Western Messenger established
Emerson bought home on Cambridge Turnpike in Concord
1836 Democrat Martin Van Buren elected to presidency
Texas declared its independence from Mexico; Alamo captured by Mexican leader Santa Anna; Texas won its independence at Battle of San Jacinto
Carlyle's Sartor Resartus published
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers began to appear
Emerson's Nature published
Transcendental Club formed
1837 Antislavery publisher Elijah Lovejoy killed by rioters in Alton, Illinois
First Massachusetts Board of Education formed
Emerson delivered "The American Scholar"
Emerson delivered first antislavery address in Concord
Carlyle's The French Revolution published
Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales published
Sarah Josepha Hale became editor of Godey's Lady's Book
P.T. Barnum's freak show debuted
1838 Forcible removal of Cherokees from Georgia and Tennessee to Oklahoma
Transatlantic steamship service began
Emerson delivered "Divinity School Address"
Publication of George Ripley's 14-volume Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature began (continued until 1842)
Boston Quarterly Review established
1839 Slave mutiny on ship Amistad
Andrews Norton attacked Transcendentalism in Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity
