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Enlightenment
is was marked in the US literature by political wrirings which involved speeches, letters, and political documents. the bible was basically used more for common sense than for emphasis and dependence. (http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm) -
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The Age of Faith
A description of culture, medieval achievements, and signification of different types of religion which includes Islam, Christianity, and Judiac life. (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78166.The_Age_of_Faith) -
Jamestown VA
"English people in Jamestown, Virginia happened more than 100 years later in 1607" http://www.english-e-corner.com/americanliterature/contents/ColonialPeriod/default.htm -
Anne Bradstree
"The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts" (http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_bio_002.htm) -
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The Age of Reason
it was a movement during the eighteenth century which was hard following religion, superstition and the mystism of the middle ages. (http://www.allabouthistory.org/age-of-reason.htm) -
French and Indian War
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Thomas Paine
The Case of the Officers of Excise (http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/paine.html) -
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Romanticism
this was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century. it arose a reaction against the Neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Romanticism was an evident in the works of New England Transcendentalists. (http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm) -
new poetic form (emily dickinson)
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/) -
Copyright Act of 1831
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher .(http://www.online-literature) -
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Transcendentalism
It was an American literary and artistic movement in the nineteenth century. the institution and the individual conscience were believed by the ones who were based in New England. (http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm) -
4 July.
The Independent Treasury Act is signed into law by President Martin Van Buren. http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1840.htm -
Frederick Douglas
An American Slave. (http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/) -
romanticism
womens rights -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Gothic Romance Scarlet Letter . (http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/) -
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Realism
it is the presentation in art of the details of actual life. it was also a literary movement which began in the nineteenth century. (http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm) -
4 February
Robert E. Lee is promoted to commander-in-chief of the Confederate army. http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1860.htm -
Jack London
'Call of the Wild". (http://www.online-literature.com/london) -
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Modernism
modernism was during the beginning of the twentieth century. it's a description of different types of movements in cultural movement which includes art, architectue, literature etc..(http://www.mdc.edu/wolfson/academic/ArtsLetters/art_philosophy/Humanities/history_of_modernism.htm) -
T.S Eliot
"Prufrock and Other Observations". (http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/) -
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The Harlem Renaissance
it created the first black american middle class which increased in education and more job oppurtunities for the black people. (http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp). -
16 January
The 18th Amendment goes into effect at midnight.http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920.htm -
F.Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby". (http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/) -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby". (http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/) -
20-21 May
The Spirit of St. Louis http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920.htm -
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Contempory Literature
its was created after WWII. it was based on a particular style and quality of writing. (http://classof1.com/homework_answers/essay_writing/contemporary_literature/) -
WWII
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Langston Hughes
Shakespeare in Harlem. (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83) -
J.D.Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye. (http://www.gradesaver.com/author/j-salinger/)