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| 1700 |
| | | Boston merchant Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, a very early anti-slavery tract | |
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| 1717 |
| | | Scottish entrepreneur John Law establishes the Louisiana Company to develop the Mississippi valley for France | |
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| 1722 |
| | | 16-year-old Benjamin Franklin contributes the 'Dogood Papers', essays on moral topics, to a Boston journal, The New England Courant | |
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| 1729 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin prints, publishes and largely writes the weekly Pennsylvania Gazette | |
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| 1731 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin sets up a subscription library, the Library Company of Philadelphia | |
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| 1732 |
| | | Georgia is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give a new start in life to debtors | |
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| 1733 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs, publishing it annually until 1758 | |
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| c. 1735 |
| | | A revivalist movement in America, led by Jonathan Edwards, becomes known as the Great Awakening | |
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| 1735 |
| | | John Peter Zenger, editor of the Weekly Journal, is acquitted of libelling the governor of New York on the grounds that what he published was true | |
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| 1741 |
| | | The American Magazine and the General Magazine both begin a short-lived existence | |
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