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Native Americans
The Native American culture was full of their own ways for everything. Things like art, writing, who they worship, myths, etc. They contributed to the American culture by setting a foundation down for society later to come. -
The Puritans
The Puritans strongly focused on tying together the world of God and the lives of the normal together with their own "right" way. Which is where their name came from, to purify the soul from sins. -
Paradise Lost by John Milton
This is about Adam and Eve and how they came to be created. Also how they came to lose their place in the garden of Eden, which is also called paradise. -
The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
The story begins in the seventeenth century Boston in an Extremely Puritan society. A crowd gathers to witness the punishment of A young woman, Hester Prynne, has been found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet A on her dress as a sign of shame. -
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason was an eighteenth century movement which followed after the mysticism, religion, and superstition of the Middle Ages. The Age of Reason was the way man viewed himself, the way of knowledge, and the universe -
The Declaration of Independence
The main purpose of America's Declaration of Independence was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. The Revolutionary War had already began, and several major battles had already taken place. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
The Constitution
The Constitution is important because it protects individual freedom, and its fundamental ways govern the United States. The Constitution places the government's power in the hands of the citizens. It limits the power of the government and establishes a system of checks and balances. -
Romanticism
The Romantic period of history, lasting from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century, affected the way of Europeans and Americans in the areas of music, literature, art, and philosophy -
Transcendentalism
A way transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature. They would believe that society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, and they have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. -
Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
Abandoned as a baby, she was found by a man named Monsieur Valmondé sitting in the shadow of a stone pillar near the Valmondé gateway. She is distracted by the son of another wealthy, well-known and respected French Creole family, Armand. They marry and have a child. People who see the baby have the sense it is different. -
Realism
Realism, in philosophy, is the viewpoint which resembles things which are known or perceived an existence or nature which is independent of whether anyone is thinking about or perceiving them. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson is an important Supreme Court decision made in 1896. The Court ruled on the concept of 'separate but equal' and set back civil rights in the United States for decades to come -
A Pair of Silk Stockings
"A Pair of Silk Stockings" was written by Kate Chopin published in 1897. Known for including in her stories local color from the Louisiana area, Chopin has also explored themes that look at the role of women in society. In "A Pair of Silk Stockings," she portrays the quiet struggle of a woman searching for a balance between family life and personal satisfaction. -
Modernism
modernist literature has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The three most important aspects of Heart of Darkness: Conrad intentionally made Heart of Darkness kind of hard to read. He wanted the language of his novella to make the reader feel like they were fighting through the jungle, just like Marlow fought through the jungle in search of Kurtz. -
WW1
The horrors of that conflict altered the world for decades. writers reflected that shifted outlook in their work. As Virginia Woolf would later write, “Then suddenly, like a chasm in a smooth road, the war came.” -
The Great Migration
he Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining event of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature of twentieth-century black literature. -
Roaring Twenties
African-American literary and artistic culture developed rapidly during the 1920s under the banner of “The Harlem Renaissance,” named for the historically black Harlem section of New York City. -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. -
Pearl Harbor
On 7 December 1941, over 350 Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, destroying or badly damaging much of the US Pacific fleet and causing thousands of casualties. US President Roosevelt called it ''a date that would live in infamy'' -
WW2
Among the causes of World War II were, to a greater extent, the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy, and to a lesser extent, Italian Fascism in the 1920s, and Japanese militarism preceding an invasion of China in the 1930s. -
Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
J.D. Salinger focuses on two main themes, protecting the innocent and isolation. One of the primary themes in the novel is protecting the innocent. Throughout the novel, Holden reminisces about his younger brother, Allie, who has passed away. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination and segregation on the basis of race, religion, national origin and gender in the workplace, schools, public accommodations and in federally assisted programs
