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1830s to 2000s
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Romanticism Literary Movement begins
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American Declaration of Independence adopted
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Signing of the US Constitution
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US Industrial Revolution begins
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US Industrial Revolution
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Second Great Awakening religious movement in US
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Period: to
Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism Picks up
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Dark Romanticism
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Mexican-American War begins
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A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
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Realism(literary Realism) begins
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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American Civil War begins
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Reconstruction Era begins/ End of Civil War
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain published in US
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Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Modernism in the US
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Imagism movmement
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WWI starts
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The Lost Generation movement
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Moderism picks up 1920s
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The Harlem Renaissance Era
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Dulce et Decorum est, poetry by Wilfred Own
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Harlem Renaissance
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Heale Hurston
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Let American be American Again by Langston Hughes
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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The Beat Generation comes to prominence
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The Beat Generation
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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Period: to
Post Modernism 1960s
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Era of Post-Modernism
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
