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Enlightenment
Called the Enlightenment period due to the influence of science and logic, this period is marked in US literature by political writings. Genres included political documents, speeches, and letters. -
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Age of Faith
The Age of Faith was the start of American Literature. From 1607-1750 those who would be come known as the first Americans, were mostly comprised of British Colonist who immigrated to America for religious or economical reasons. -
God Glorified in the Work of Redemption - Jonathan Edwards
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Age of Reason
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Boston Massacre
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Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America - Thomas Paine
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Major Event of Age of Faith
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that made a big impact on society. -
Ohio outlaws slavery
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allen Poe
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Transcendentalists
Transcendentalism was the American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century which was based on people that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience. -
A Week on the Concord And Merrimac Rivers - Henry David Thoreau
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The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July" - Frederick Douglas
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America and Mexico sign Gadsden Treaty
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Leaves Of Grass - Walt Whitman
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Free Soilers establish government banning slavery and blacks from Kansas
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Naturalism
Naturalism was a literary movement with writers at the end of the 19th century. -
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Realism
Presentation in art of the details of actual life & the literary movement that began in the 19th century and became real instead as being fake. -
President Johnson impeached, acquitted
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
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A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London
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