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Puritianism
Pilgrims land at plymouth, Massachussetts. -
Puritian authors
Around 1620 Puritian authors start to emerge with authors such as jonathan edwards, and anne bradstreet. -
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English Project
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Puritian beliefs
Puritian beliefs such as devotion, hard work, and duty over emotions start to emerge. -
puritianism
Massachussetts establishes free public schools. -
Rationalism Era
Documents such as the declaration of independance and the constitution start being drafted. -
Rationalism authors
Around this time, authors such as thomas paine, thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin, and patrick henry start to emerge. -
Rationalist Ideas
Ideas sucha s community nad individualism, knowledge is power start to come about. -
Rationalist Era
On this date, the second continental congress adopts the declaration of idependance. -
The constitution
On this date, the constitutional convention meets in philadelphia to draft constitution. -
Rationalist Authors
in this time period authors such as henry wadsworth longfellow, washington irving, edgar allan poe, nathaniel hawthorne, herman melville, ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau, walt whitman, and emily dickinson start to emerge. -
Edgar allan poe
egar allan poe publishes t amerlane. -
Hawthorne
The scarlet letter is published. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
hawthorne publishes the house of seven gables. -
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Realism
Time period where people liked the idea of coming to age, as well as pulling away fr fanasy and focusing on "the now" -
Civil War begins
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Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated
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Rgionalism
The period right after the Civil War. Time in which people focused on society, and celebrated community and acceptance. slavery had just ended. -
13th Ammendment is passsed
Frees slaves in the south -
Reconstruction in the South
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Naturalism
An antiromantic, scientific time period inn which writers amongst people shared the belief that humans impose will upon their own destiny. Survival of tfittest was also very key. -
W.E.B. DuBois published The Souls of Black Folk
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Modernism authors
William Faulkner wrote "As i lay dying", Ernest Hermingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls", T.S. Eliot wrote "The wasteland(poetry)", F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby", Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken(poetry) -
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Modernism
-WWII ushered in the Atomic Age
-After WWI, Americans left behind many of the optimistic attitudes and humane values of the prewar world -
Harlem Renaissacne authors
Langston Hughes wrote "i,Too(poetry & short stories), Zora Neale Hurston wrote "Their Eyes were Watching God", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "We wear the Mask(poetry), Ralph Ellison wrote "Invisible Man", Richard Wright wrote "Native Son" -
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Harlem Renaissance
Provoked prose and poetry that expressed African American experience.-In 1920s, New York City neighborhood of Harlem Renaissance was home to an unprecedent flowering of African talent that left an astonshing cultural legacy.-This remarkable period marked the first that African American artists were taken seriously by the culture. -
Postmodernism authors
Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible(play)", Toni Morrison wrote "Beloved", J.D Salinger wrote "Catcher in the Rye". -
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Postmodernism
- During the fifties, many Americans who had lived through the Great Depression and WWII cared normaly-During the sixties, many Americans protested against the Vietnam War, racial justice, and social conformity