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Puritans Praying
some puritans prayed in groups -
Puritanism in Early America
American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother country. Some of these early works reached the level of literature, -
Puritan Punishments
the image shows how some of the puritans were punished for doing wrong. -
The salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. -
Romanticism author
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. -
Romanticism
, among other things, stands for a literary renaissance. Three generations of Romanticists dominated the intellectual scene from 1770 to 1865 in Western Europe and in North America, bringing a different approach to writing in terms of style and topic. It was a rebellion against the formalism of the Enlightenment or, rather, revised its views. -
Native american act
1830 The Indian Removal Act is passed. -
Realism author
Mark Twain was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "the Great American Novel." -
Realism Author
William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly. -
Native american tribe
1854 Conquering Bear of the Lakota tribe is killed along with many others by troops from Fort Laramie. -
Romanticism author
Frederick Douglass the escaped slave whose oral and written advocacy made him one of the era’s most visible social reformers. -
Romanticism Event
1865 - Slavery abolished in America -
Realism Event
Thomas Edison created the first working light bulb -
Realism Event
The National League of Baseball was Founded -
Native american author
Barney Bush was born in Illinois. After completing high school, Bush hitchhiked across the United States for several years. He graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 1972 with degrees in Art and History. He became involved in the American Indian Movement, and helped to establish the Institute of the Southern Plains, a Cheyenne Indian School in Oklahoma. In 1980 he earned a Master's degree in English and Fine Arts from the University of Idaho. He is a poet and author. -
The native americans
Native American literature written in the 18th and 19th century is considered a literature of transition between the oral tradition which flourished before Europeans arrived on the continent and the beginning of the 1960’s when the Native American Renaissance began. Nineteenth-century literature authored by Native Americans was text-based and written in English, which resulted primarily because of the English taught in missionary schools.
