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The Age of Faith
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
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Enlightenment
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
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Henry Hudson explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River
Henry Hudson explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River -
jonathan edwards
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/edwards.html
God Glorified in the Work of Redemption, By the Greatness of Man's Dependence on Him -
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The Age of reason
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of common sense (logic) and science. -
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence
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Romanticism
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica. -
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
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The Transcendentalists
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. The Transcendentalists, who were based in New England, believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. -
Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/poe.html
The Raven and Other Poems -
Texas admission to the US
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Gold discovered in California
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/stowe.html -
Henry David Thoreau
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Realism
Realism is the presentation in art of the details of actual life.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
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Naturalism
The Naturalists tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/twain.html -
Emily Dickinson
published in 1890
Poems by Emily Dickinson
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html -
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/london.html -
Ford Model T marketed
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Modernism
An age of disillusionment and confusion
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The Harlem Rennissance
a time of African American artistic creativity centered in Harlem, in New York City.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
E.E. Cummings
The Enormous Room
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/cummings.html -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/fitzgerald.html -
The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is the first "talkie" to be released
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Langston Huges
The Ways of White Folks
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Contemperary Literature
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J.D. Salinger
The catcher in the rye
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