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Period: to
1840's
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Independent Treasury Act is signed into law
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Poe becomes editor of Graham's Magazine
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Poe leaves editorship of Graham's Magazine
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Poe and Cottrell Clarke sign an agreement for a new magazine called The Stylus
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Poe's 'The Gold Bug' wins $100 prize from the Dollar Newspaper
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Poe delivers the first of his lectures on American Poetry in Philadelphia
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Telegraph first used
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Publication of Mesmeric Revelation
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James Polk elected president
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The Raven is published in the New York Evening Mirror
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Florida becomes a state
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Texas becomes a state
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U.S. Congress delcares the U.S. at war with Mexico
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Treaty with Great Britain expands Oregon Territory
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In California, U.S. settlers proclaim the independent Republic of California
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U.S. annexation of New Mexico
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Iowa becomes a state
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Poe's wife, Virginia, dies in Fordham, New York from tuberculosis
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James Marshall discovers gold near Sutter's Fort, California
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Wisconsin becomes a state
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize first American women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
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Zachary Taylor inaugurated as president
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First gold-seekers arrive in San Francisco
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Publication of Hop Frog
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Poe dies in Baltimore in the Washington University Hospital