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Colonial Period
this was when people were coming to America, but caled it New Englad to try to seperate from the church. Even though they said they weree trying to seperate from the church they still were very strict on religon. -
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Enlightenment
This was a time period focused more on Science and Indusrty. People stopped producing more and started traveling more. During this timespan religous leaders didnt really have much power. Poeple were going their seperate ways. -
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Age of Faith
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Jonathan Edwards
One of the greatest Theoligans in American history. Also a minister who supported George Whitefield. He delivered one of the most famous sermons from this era: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". He hoped his sermon would wake up the congregation and show them what is going to happen to them if they did not confess their sins to God. -
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Age of Reason
this is also know as the Enlightment period. When people were becoming more reliant on Science -
Thomas Paine
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Romanticisim
This period by all time was the most confusing and mixed up period. Although Romanticism was confusing it was also the most versitile. -
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Trancendentalists
this time period was all about knowledge could be arrived at not just through the senses, but through intuition and contemplation of the internal spirit. -
Edgar Allen Poe
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Natheniel Hwthorne
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Realism
Realism is attention to detail, and an effort to replicate the true nature of reality in a way that writer sees things. -
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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Emily Dickenson
Heart we will forget Him! -
The Great Migration
this was when African Americans moved from the south to the north in hopes of being treated better. -
Langston Hughes
The ways of the White folks -
Fredrick Douglas
An American Slave -
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -
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Modernism
this period was all about experiments and trying new things out -
Jack London
Call of the Wild -
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Thye Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renassaince was the period for a difference. It was a cultural time in history. we had amazing writers who stood out like Langston Hughes. -
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Contemparary Literature
this is literarture that we have now -
T.S. Eliot
The Wasteland -
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Naturalism
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F. Scott FItzgerald
The Great Gatsby
