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1600 - Present
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Enlightment
An intellectual movement. -
The Sugar Act of 1764
Tax imposed on sugar by British gov't. -
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Gothic Fiction
Set the plot for modern day horror stories. -
Townshend Act of 1767
Laws punishing the American colonies. -
Independence Day
America gains its independence. -
"A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Transcendentalism
A 19th-century American movement -
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Realism
Work that is honest and not exaggerated. -
The Compromise of 1850
Bills fixing issues between free North states and South slave states. -
Lincoln Elected President
Lincoln becomes 16th president of the United States. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War. -
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
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"The adventures of Huckleberry" Finn by Mark Twain
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Modernism
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"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
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Dadaism
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Surrealism
Broke down the wall between rational and irrational. -
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
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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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Post-Modernism
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Beginning of the Beat Generation
Began in 1950s before merging into the Hippie movement in the 1960s. -
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
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"I Carry Your Heart With Me" by E.E. Cummings
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
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"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
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"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
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Barack Obama Elected President
The first African American president.
