American Literary Movement Timeline

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    Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment A time period where americans started to realize that we could do things on are own. Americans also started to challange the rules and ideas of the old time periods of europe and are own.
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    The Age of Faith

    Age of Faith
    The american time period where religon and faith were the driving force for american literature.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    JamestownThe first permanent english settlement is established in Jamestown, Va.
  • Religious Affection by Joanthan Edwards

    Religious Affection by Joanthan Edwards
    Religious Affections Jonathan Edwards publish Religious Affections. The book challenges Christian treatise, how we view being saved.
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    The Age of Reason

    Age of reason
    The age where americans use literature to voice there thoughts. there many thought of freedom and independence from England.
  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine

    Common Sense by Thomas Paine
    Common Sense
    A book published by thomas paine to tell all of the people of america to challenge England's rule over them.
  • First President

    First President
    George WashingtonGeorge Washington is elected the First President of the United States of America.
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    Romanticism

    Romanticism
    Romanticism; A liteary movement time period which lasted from 1800-1850 in reaction to the age of faith. This period showed many different writing styles and created many types of writing genres.
  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

    Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
    Baltimore & Ohio RailroadThe first public railroad is chartered by the U.S. government to be built.
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    Trancendentalism

    Trancendentalism The movement of a new way to understand knowledge.
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Harriet Tubman escapes slavey for the first time. She is and African American Hero because of her work to free slaves from slavery.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
    Scarlet Letter
    Nathaniel Hawthorne writes and has his book The Scarlet Letter published. It one of biggest known book from the romantic liteary time period.
  • Moby-Dick

    Moby-Dick
    Moby-Dick is published by Herman Melville. Moby-Dick is an great american classic.
  • Walden

    Walden
    Walden
    The book writen by Herny David Thoreau about his joureny into human nature. Walden is based on Henry's two year experiment in a cabin where he lives and try to find more about human nature by just throwing away any and all concorns and human material postions.
  • Leaves of Grass

    Leaves of Grass
    LOG A collection of peoms by Walt Whitman.
  • Abraham is elected persident

    Abraham is elected persident
    16th PresidentAbraham is elected 16th president of the United States.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin This book changed forever how america viewed slavery published in 2852 written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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    Realism

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    Naturalism

    Naturalismsub-genre of realism
  • Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer
  • Jack London's The Call of the Wild

    Jack London's The Call of the Wild
    The Call of the Wild This one of acks most famous novels. It follows a dog as it goes through challenges of having many diferent owners during the Cailforina Gold Rush.
  • First Flight

    First Flight
    First Flight Video Wright Brothers become the first man ever to fly.
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    Modernism

    Modernism n broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world.
  • WWI Begins

    WWI Begins
    WWI
    WWI begins when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The First Great World Wars!
  • WWI Officially Ends

    WWI Officially Ends
    WWI Ends The first great war ends with the allied powers winning. Only litte would know because of the punish to Germany after the war would led to another Great World War Years later.
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    The Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance>Harlem </a>
    THis time period was the showing of blacks in the art and social world. During this time many black arts and writers came to be such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jessie Fauset.
  • T.S. Ellot's The Wastle Land

    T.S. Ellot's The Wastle Land
    TWL A long poem by T.S. Ellot about human relatoinships.
  • Langston Hughes: "Mother to Son"

    Langston Hughes: "Mother to Son"
  • F. Scott Fittzgerald's The Greats Gatsby

    F. Scott Fittzgerald's The Greats Gatsby
    TGG One of fitz most famous works: "The Great Gatsby".
  • National Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner

    National Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner
    National Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem
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    Contemporay Literature

  • J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"

    J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"
  • 9/11

    9/11