Pearl's American Lit. Timeline

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    The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment was a period of time when people were trying to revive religion and its role in society. Enlightenment preachers would preach to the masses outside in camps, where their sermons were met with enthusiastic reactions among the crowd and created new religious branches such as baptism
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    Romanticism

  • Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is published

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    Rise of Transcendentalism

  • Edgar allen Poe's poem, The Raven, is published

    Edgar allen Poe's poem, The Raven, is published

    Edgar Allen poe opposed the Transcendentalist movement, calling its supporters "Frog-ponders"

  • California Gold Rush

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

    Upon meeting the author, Abraham Lincoln remarked to her, "So you're the little lady who started the war", noting the North's and South's tensions over slavery, among other issues, at the time

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States

    Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States

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    Civil war in the united states

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    Realism

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States

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    Naturalism

  • Edward Meeker records Take me Out to the Ballgame

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    Rise of Modernism

    Modernism developed after World war 1, admist all of the changes in social opinion caused by the devastation of the war, particularly the changes in the way society thought about the government or establishment

  • U.S. formally declares war on Germany

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    Harlem Renaissance

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Langston Hughes' poem, A Dream deferred, is published

  • first publishing of f Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

    first publishing of f Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

  • Ernest Hemingway's The Sun also Rises is published

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    Great Depression

  • Their Eyes Were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is published

    Their Eyes Were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is published

  • Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published

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    Rise of Post-modernism

    a reaction to modernism, only even more radical and far-reaching than modernism
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    Rise of Beat generation

  • The catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published

    The catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published

  • Vladimir Nadokov's Lolita is published

    Vladimir Nadokov's Lolita is published

  • harper Lee's To Kill a mockngbird is published

    harper Lee's To Kill a mockngbird is published

  • Publishing of Kurt vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five

    Publishing of Kurt vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five

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    Spoken Word Movement