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The Age of Enlightenment was the first American literary movement that was led by science and logic instead of religion which was almost unheard of at the time. Enlightened thinkers believed that advances in technology and science instead of faith and religion would better improve society.
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The religious movement that was founded in america to premote religion in the new world. This was led by the desire to influence everything with religious veiws and opinions.
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The Salem Witch Trials that occured in Boston, Massachucets
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Famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
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The literary movment that succeeded the Age of Faith and more over premoted logic and science instead of religion. The Age of Reason was the last movment in the enlightenment period of American literature.
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Revolutionary War begins when shots are fired at Lexington and Concord.
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Famous Pamphlet "Common Sence".
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Romanticism was the literary period that cam after the Enlightenment period that focused more on the individual and nature instead of society.
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Famous Short Story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
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The War for Texas between the Texans and the Mexicans begins.
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Trancendentalism was the movement that promoted the individuals intuitions and opinions and placed skeptisism on most religions.
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Famous Poem "The Raven".
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Gold is discovered in California and the Gold rush begins.
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Famous Book "Walden" is published after Thoreau leaves Walden pond.
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Famous Collection "Leaves of Grass" is published for the first time.
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The CiviI War began and paved the way for realist writters.
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Realism was the literary movement that came to replace romanticism in the late 1800's. The realists didn't romanticise reality by focusing on the true details of society and nature.
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Naturalism was a branched off genre of realism. This new but similar style of writting was focused more on the cause and effect of peoples actions instead of just what they did.
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16th President of the United States of America is shot by Jhon Wilkes Booth.
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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is published. One of his greates works.
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"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is published as an autobiography.
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"The War of the Classes" is published.
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When the writting style of Modernism is brought about America was at it's high and lows. America was entering WWI and when that ended America prospered, but the the depression hit and America plummited. By the end the world was preparing for WWII.
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The Harlem Renassiance is the Depression era writing that came out of Black authors of New York. They focused on writing about what was going on, people and themselves.
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"The Waste Land" Dipicting the the fall of the war is published.
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The Great Depression begins.
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The Ways of White Folks" is Published.
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This is the period of writting that has spaned the last century to the present day. Writings have been focused on the problems of every day people and that of the supernatural.
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is published.
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America enters WWII which later leads to the Atomic Bomb being created and droped.
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"the Catcher in the Rye" is published.