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Declaration of Independence adopted by Congress
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American Literature Timeline
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Eli Whitney Invents Cotton Gin
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"Star Spangled Banner", Francis Scott Key
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American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism
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"The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe
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The Scarlette Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn
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Civil War Starts
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American Realism
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Thomas Edison Invents the Lightbulb (patented)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Modernism
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Start Of World War 1
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Surrealism
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Stridentism
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The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald
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All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
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"Dear Lovely Death", Langston Hughes
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Gone With The WInd, by Margaret Mitchell
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Start Of World War 2
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The Beat Generation
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Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
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Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin
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Post-Modernism -->
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
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"Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver
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Spoken Word
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Obama's Inauguration
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"Not Afraid", Eminem
