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American lit timeline

By ms3443
  • Native American Creation

    Native American Creation
    The World on the Turtles Back - about a woman that fell onto the tutles back and made the world
    This Newly Created World
    I Have Killed the Deer
  • sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

    sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    By Jonathan Edwards
    this dude wanted to scare some puritans into following god
  • Poor Richards Almanack

    Poor Richards Almanack
    It is a book written by ben franklin that puts life lessons in a witty format
  • speech in the Virginia Convention

    speech in the Virginia Convention
    he was trying to convince people on why they shoud go to war
  • The crisis

    The crisis
    more focused to keep the motivations up
  • Olauda Equiano

    Olauda Equiano
    From the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    - about a slave that was taken from africa and his trip
  • The Autobiography of Ben Franklin

    The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    he listed the virtues that you should live your life by and talked about wanting to live a better life
  • Emerson

    Emerson
    Self-Reliance (1888)- Everything that you do is connected and have the same goal
    Nature- everything that you do is connected with nature or your natural instincts.
  • Huck Finn

    Huck Finn
    This book follows Huck Finn in a journy of him running away from an abusive situation, he travles with a runaway slave named jim who acts as a parental figure. it explores the flaws in social thought and patterns during that time frame.
  • The Crucible

    The Crucible
    The Crucible is about the salem witch trials and how it was all a hoax.
  • Thoreau

    Thoreau
    Walden (1854)- walden moves out to the woods to live simply and without distarction so he can enjoy what he has in life.
    Civil Disobediance (1849) - this was about how people should respect law and peoples rights but they should also not accept a corrupt legal system.