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Jun 1, 1490
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–c. 1560)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's was born around a noble family but his unuaual names means "head of a Crow", but came from an ancestor who helped the Spanish. When he was a teenager he joind a army and participated in a expedition that seted sail to Florida in June 1527. -
Period: Jun 1, 1490 to
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Jun 9, 1527
from La Relacion
CAbeza de Vaca was seccond in command of a disatrous five-ship expedition to establish a colony in florida. When two ships went down in a hurricane and more than two hundred men drowned or desreted the expedition lnded in 1528 near present day. -
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William Bradford (1590–1657)
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William Bradford (1590–1657)
He was the son of a prosperous farmer in Yorksire,England. Sermons of the Puritan minister inspired him to attend meetings of a separatists, people who disagreed with the church of England's teachings. In the time period of 1608 Bradfords group of separatists crossed the North Sea to Holland. -
Plymouth Plantation
The colonial period history began when the pilgrams members of a dissident religious community that had broken away from the chuch of england and landed at Plymouth on Dec.21. -
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American Realism And Romantism
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Romantic Period
During the Romantic period a new national literautre developed.Romanticism unlike rationalism valued feelings over reassons and logic the power of imagintaion. The Romantic movement was in a large part of rationalism. -
Realism
Rapid industrial development brought country wealth and new status as a world power but produced unsettling social problems. The progressive Movement emerged in an attempt to improve American politics, business, and community life by embarassing social and political reform.
