American Literary Movements

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  • Period: Sep 23, 1500 to

    Puritans

  • Mayflower sails to find America

  • Thomas Hooker led 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay

    led one hundred settlers out of Massachusetts Bay

  • Psalm Bay Book

    by John Eliot and Richard Mather
  • Period: to

    Revolutionaries

  • George Washington

    was commander of Continental Army

  • Thomas Paine

    writes ¨Common Sense¨ that advocated independence

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    Transcendentalism/Romanticism

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    started Transcendental Club

  • Margaret Fuller

    advocated women´s rights

  • ¨Civil Disobedience¨ by Henry David Thoreau

  • Period: to

    Realism and Naturalism

  • Civil War

  • Emile Zola

    first to contribute to naturalistic writings

  • ¨Maggie: The Girl of the Streets¨ by Stephen Crane

  • World War I

  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • James Weldon Johnson

    his writings contributed to Harlem Renaissance

  • Women can vote

  • Langston Hughes

    writings contributed to this era
  • Period: to

    Harlem Renaissance

  • TV invented

  • Great Depression

  • Scott Fitzgerald

    writings contributed in this era

  • Vietnam War

  • Period: to

    Contemporaries

  • Martin Luther KIng Jr

    ¨I Have a Dream¨

  • Civil Rights Movement