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Romantic Period of Literature
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Transcendentalism
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Early Victorian Age Period of Literature
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The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Dred Scott Decision
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Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln announces that the major focus of the Civil War has changed to freeing all the slaves -
Realistic Period of Literature
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Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period of Literature
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Edwardian Period of Literature
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World War One Begins
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Modernism
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Harlem Renaissance
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Prohibition of Alcohol
18th Amendment prohibits alcohol -
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
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The Great Gastby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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United States bombs Japan
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The Beat Generation
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Post-Modernism
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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John F. Kennedy assassination
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Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
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What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
