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Period: Jun 27, 1500 to
Natvie American Literature
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Jun 27, 1527
Spanish Explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca lands in Florida
In June 27, 1527 Nunez went sea from Spain to Florida with five ships with 300 and forty horses for traveling in land, the purpose was this is for him to settle and colonize. Landed on Florida in April 15, 1528 near the coast of Tampa Bay. -
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Puritans
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Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford was born on1590 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. He marries Dorothy May and soon died during the voyage to Plymouth in 1613.He was elected to be governor in 1621 when John Calver died. In 1623 William marries Alice Carpenter Southworth. Became a writer and made the book Of Plymouth Plantation in 1630.On 1657 Willaim Bradford dies. -
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin was 22 years old was into writing his life. He wrote what he had experience during his time period and shows what kind of person he was. In 1771 he began his autobiography but never finished it as he died in 1790. -
Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773 a group of patriots dressed as Indians went to Boston, Massachusetts, armed with axes and hatchets. Destroying 350 crates filled with British tea in all three ships for freedom. -
Thomas Jefferson Purchase Louisiana
The Louisiana Purchase was a land between France and the United States which took place in 1803. The U.S must have $15 million to purchase Louisiana with the Mississippi river. In December 30, 1803 the United States offically gained Louisiana. -
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Romanticism
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Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant lives in a log cabin born on November 1794 near Cummington, Massachusetts. Bryant originally finished a poem called Thanatopsis in 1817, his most recognizable poem ever created by him. On January 11, 1821 he married Francis Fairchild, while he still has his legal career build. Bryant died in 1878. Most people love his books because he reflect the characters in his story which bring readers interest into it. -
The First Steam Engine runnig in America
The first rail road track was in 1830 with 13 miles long in United States.It began constructing on July 4, 1828. In 1869, the first continental train was finish with Central Pacific line and the Union Pacific joined. Settlements became faster and growing across the country. Many people train travel as they write romantic poems, songs, stories, and plays. -
Noah Webster
Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut on October 16, 1758. Noah Webster graduated Yale University in 1778. Noah Married Rebbeca Greenleaf in 1789 with 8 childern. He was most famous for studying law and teaches at New York of needing English text books. He accomplish for copyrights, abolish slavery, universal education and strong federal government. Since then, he publishes An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828 when he was 70 years old. He died on May 28, 1843. -
Bayou Folk
Kate Chopin a writer born in St. Louis February 8, 1851. Her full name was Katherine O'Flaherty Chopin which spent most 14 years in Louisiana. At age 19 Kate married Oscar Chopin and move with him to New Orleans. He died in 1882. After years she returned St. Louis with six children. Several of her short story poems were economic tales with dialect; one of them was Bayou Folk. Kate died brain hemorrhage while she was visiting at St. Louis World’s Fair. She was remember for her master piece of A -
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Realism
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The Red Badged
A realism writer name Stephen Crane born on New Jersey in November 1, 1871. He was the last child and the 14th from Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane. He went to college at Claverack College from 1888-90 then at Syracuse University. He became a literary writer in 1892, at New York. The Red Badged was published in 1895 giving a realistic impression about the civil war. Stephen died at age 28 from tuberculosis on June 5, 1900. -
Spoon River Anthology
On August 23, 1886, Edger Lee Master was born in Garnett, Kansas. As soon he was born his family moved to Lewistown, Illinois and is the place where Masters grew up. He attended to Knox College for a year but his family had put him to study private. He married Helen Jenkins. He wrote Spoon River Anthology that was challenging to have form, combining free verse, epitaph, realism, and cynicism. Harriet Monroe a poetry editor helps Master of having issue of complete edition in 1915. Spoon River Ant -
World’s Columbian Exposition
In 1893 May 1, World’s Columbian Exposition took place in Chicago. It was the first successful World’s fair in the U.S. The Columbian Exposition had great burgeoning economic power and architecture. -
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. When he was 13, he attended St. Paul Academy. Later in years at age 15, he went to Newman school at New Jersey. In 1913 he graduated from Newman school and decided to stay in New Jersey to have more development artist at Princeton University. He married Zelda Sayre in New York having one daughter name Frances Scott Fitzgerald born in 1921. He created one of his greatest novels; The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. -
Orville Wright
Orville Wright piloted the first powered plane ever fly on December 17, 1903 on North Carolina. In 1896 the Wright brothers started there experiment in there bicycle shop on Dayton, Ohio. The choose the beach at Kitty Hawk as there ground because the wind is constantly blow at the beach and add a lift of their craft. In 1902 they had 700 successful flights. -
World War 1
Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Britain declares on Germany in August 4, 1914. On April 6, 1917 American enters war against Germany. This is the first U.S World war and mass lost soldiers. -
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Modernism
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The Roaring 20's
The roaring 20’s brought many Americans from poor to wealth. It was the first time from 1920 through 1929 that many people live in cities than on farms. Many people have Radio and brought more than 500 station in the nation within 3 years. Automoble bacame affordable at the time of the Ford Model T. This gave young people to go anywhere.
