American Lit 1

By haterred
  • Jan 1, 1560

    Thomas Harriot is born

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  • Jan 1, 1576

    Thomas Morton is born

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  • Jan 1, 1580

    John Smith is born

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  • Harriot's "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" is published

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  • William Bradford is born

  • Powhatan confrederacy saves colonists from starving by teachingthem to plant tobacco

    This gave the colonists the jump start they needed. It gave them trade with England. Only year is known

  • Anne Bradstreet is born

  • Pontiac is born

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  • Thomas Harriot dies

  • First Thanksgiving at Plymouth

    The colonist established a day of thanks, that we obviously still have today.

  • Smith's "The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles" is published

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  • John Smith dies

  • Mary Rowlandson is born

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  • Morton's "New English Canaan"

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  • Anne Hutchinson is exiled from Bay Colony from standing up to Puritans

    I think she shows that people can stand up and have their own beliefs. Only year is known

  • Immigration of other groups of English Puritans move into Massachusetts Bay

    More and more people are moving over to America and actually proving that we can uphold a civilization. Only year is known

  • Thomas Morton dies

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  • Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse" is published

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  • Samuel Sewall is born

  • William Bradford dies

  • Cotton Mather is born

  • Anne Bradstreet dies

  • King Philip's war ruins Native American's power in New England

    Native American start to lose power and we start to gain power over them Only year is known

  • William Penn establishes Pennsylvania

    One of the first states that practices the Quaker religion and not the Puritan religion. Only year is known

  • Rowlandson's "Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration" is published

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  • Salem Witchcraft Trials

    These trials just proved that guilt and superstition can take over a person's mind, and many innocent people died from these. Only year is known

  • Sewall's "The Selling of Joseph" is published

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  • Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" is published

  • Jonathan Edwards is born

  • Benjamin Franklin is born

  • Jonathan Carver is born

  • Mary Rowlandson dies

  • French found New Orleans

    Important trade and purchase for the French Only year is known

  • Samson Occom is born

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  • Logan is born

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  • Cotton Mather dies

  • Samuel Sewall dies

  • John Adams is born

  • J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is born

  • Thomas Paine is born

  • Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is published

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  • Thomas Jefferson is born

  • Abigail Adams is born

  • Red Jacket is born

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  • Judith Sargent Murray is born

  • Phillis Wheatly is born

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  • The Great Awakening comes to a close

    New religions were explored and it was a huge religious movement in New england Only year is known

  • Jonathan Edwards

  • Hannah Webster Foster is born

  • Pontiac dies

  • Boston Tea Party

    One of the first huge colonists/rebel revolts. Propaganda is started and tension climbs. Only year is known

  • Wheatly's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is published

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  • Paine's "Common Sense" is published

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  • Paine's "The Crisis No. 1" is published

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  • Declaration of Independance

    Code of laws we still use today

  • Carver's "Travels through the Interior Parts of North America" is published

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  • Logan dies

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  • Jonathan Carver dies

  • Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer"

    Only year is known

  • War for American Independance is over

    America parts with England to form our own country, Definitely impacts us today.

  • Washingtpn Irving is born

  • Phillis Wheatly dies

  • David Walker is born

  • Jefferson quote Logan's speech in his book, "Notes on the State of Virginia"

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  • Jefferson's book, "Notes on the States of Virginia" is published

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  • U.S. Constitution

    Code of Laws we still use today that impacts our daily lives Only year is known

  • Sarah Josepha Hale is born

  • George Washington elected president

    As someone who fought in the war and was one of the founding fathers, he knew what would get us on our feet and just how to do it. Only year is known

  • Benjamin Franklin dies

  • Murray's "On the Equality of the Sexes" is published

  • Washington DC is founded

    Important move to have a capital, that is permenant and established control and order

  • Samson Occom dies

  • Paine's "Age of Reason" is published

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  • Sojourner Truth is born

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  • Foster's "The Coquette" is published

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  • Louisiana Purchase

    We now surround the spanish that were,in what now is present day florida. Only year is known

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson is born

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne is born

  • Angelina E. Grimke is born

  • William Lloyd Garrison is born

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born

  • John Greenleaf Whittier is born

  • Edgar Allan Poe is born

  • Red Jacket's speech is printed in the April issue of "Monthly Anthology"

  • Thomas Paine dies

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe is born

  • Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) is born

  • Martin R. Delany is born

  • Harriet Jacobs is born

  • J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur dies

  • William Wells Brown is born

  • Stock exchange is founded

    The stock exchange affects the course of American history with all the gains and crashes. Only year is known

  • Henry David Thoreau is born

  • The first part of Franklin's "Autobiography" is published

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  • Frederick Douglass is born

  • Abigail Adams dies

  • US possesion of Florida

    We basically have the eastern seaboard set up, protecting our shores and having trade. Only year is known

  • Walt Whitman is born

  • Herman Melville is born

  • Judith Sargent Murray is born

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  • Irving's "The Sketchbook" is published

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  • John Adams dies

  • Thomas Jefferson dies

  • First U.S. Railroad company

    Only year is known

  • Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" is published

  • Indian Removal Act is passed

    We start to up root the native settlers and push them into other parts of the country. Only year is known

  • Red Jacket dies

  • David Walker dies

  • Emily Dickinson born

  • Garrison's "To the Public" is published

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  • Whittier's "Legends of New England" is published

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  • Women workers at Lowell Mills stage first strike

    Women are starting to speak up more and more. Only year is known

  • Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is published

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  • Grimke's "To the Christian Women of the South" is published

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  • Emerson's "Nature" is published

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  • Texas declares independance from Mexico

    Texas was a large plot of land that the U.S. quickly scooped up. Only year is known

  • Trail of Tears

    Native Americans are beginning to be forced and pushed around by the government when they were here first. Only year is known

  • Underground Railroad

    Helping slaves escape to the north to freedom Only year is known

  • Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is published

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  • Publication of some of the Adams letters

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  • Hannah Webster Foster dies

  • Emerson's "Self Relience" is published

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  • Longfellow's "the Slave Singing at Midnight" is published

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  • Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" is published

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  • Samuel Moore invents telegraph

    people are starting to modernize and use more methods of communicating Only year is known

  • Douglass' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" is published

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  • Irish Potato farmers cross over after the Great Potato Famine.

    This affects my life because my great- great grandpa was one of the potato farmers. Only year is known

  • Mormons found Salt Lake City

    This is important because Salt Lake is a huge source of economy and natural resources. Only year is known

  • Gold Rush

    Inspires people to move west and explore Only year is known

  • Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government" is published

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  • Edgar Allan Poe dies

  • Whittier's "Ichabod!" is published

    Only year is known

  • Truth's "Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio" is published

    Only year is known

  • Pontiac's speech, "Speech at Detroit" is published in Francis Parkman's "The Conspiracy of Pontiac"

    Only year is known

  • Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published

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  • Hale's "The Father's Choice is first seen in "Woman's Record"

    Only year is known

  • Brown's "Clotel" is published

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  • Delany's "Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent" is published

    Only year is known

  • Thoreau's "Walden" is published

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  • Fern's "Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-Folio. Second Series" is published

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  • Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is published

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  • WIlliam Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" is published

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  • First successful oil well drilled

    America doesn't have to import as much oil as before. Only year is known

  • Washington Irving

  • Pony Express

    Even though it was short lived it was a useful method of communicating in the west. Only year is known

  • Jacob's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is published

    Only year is known

  • Henry David Thoreau dies

  • Lincoln is re-elected

    obviously people supported Lincoln's ideas, this gave the anti-slavery movement more time before he was assassinated. Only year is known

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne dies

  • Lincoln was assassinated

    People went to far measures to show their belief about racism and slavery Only year is known

  • Ku Klux Klan is formed in the South

    People get to see the more violent side of the south and the more violent they are willing to get about racism.

  • Alaska is purchased

    This one of the most important gold rush spots that hit other than california and turns a huge profit back at the U.S.

  • First transcontinental railroad is completed

    Now people can travel across the country by train, Which is a lot safer than riding across. Only year is known

  • 15th Amendment

    This gives everyone a right to vote Only year is known

  • Great Chicago fire

    This signifies the re-birth of Chicago Only year is known

  • Fanny Fern dies

  • More Adams letters are published

    Only year is known

  • Civil Rights act is passed

    This puts an end to slavery but not to racism Only year is known

  • Sarah Josepha Hale dies

  • William Lloyd Garrison dies

  • Angelina E. Grimke dies

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson dies

  • Sojourner Truth dies

  • William Wells Brown dies

  • Martin R. Delany dies

  • Dickinson dies

  • Emily Dickinson's Poems are published

    Only year is known

  • Wounded Knee massacre

    This showed how cruel we could be to the indians. Only year is known

  • Melville dies

  • Whitman dies

  • John Greenleaf Whittier dies

  • Frederick Douglass dies

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe dies

  • Harriet Jacobs dies

  • Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor" is published

    Only year is known

  • Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"

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  • Samson Occom's autobiography is included in "The Elders Wrote: An Anthology of Early Prose by North America Indians, 1768-1931"

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