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Enlightenment
Scientific rationalism, exemplified by the scientific method, was the hallmark of everything related to the Enlightenment.
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The Glorious Revolution
In 1688, King James II was overthrown by English Parliamentarians and William III -
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Ben Franklin
In 1757 Ben Franklin wrote "Reasons Against Satirizing Religion," which questioned the validity of strict religion. -
Thamas Pain writes The Age of Reason
Thomas Pain wrote a book called The Age of Reason. It was about God, Deism, Nature, Christianity, the Bible, Judaism, etc. -
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Second Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement -
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Edgar Allen Poe
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James K. Polk bcomes President
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850 -
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman published one of his most famous poems, O Captain! My Captain! -
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Naturalism
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 -
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Emily Dickenson
Most of Emily Dickenson's poems werent dicovered until after her death in 1886 -
Jack London
Jack London publsihed The Call of the Wild in -
Titanic
On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic -
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The Harlem Renaissance
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E. E. Cummings
In 1923, E. E. Cummings puplished his first collection of poems. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1923 -
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Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Liturature is all liturature from 1939 to now. "Its all great stuff, but not a clear philosophy" -
Beginning of WWII
In 1939 Germany invaded Poland -
Earnest Hemingway publishes Across the River and Into the Trees
Hemingway puplished Across the River and Into the Trees in 1950 -
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger puplished The Catcher in the Rye in 1951 -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Apollo 11
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the moon and became the first manned American spacecraft to succesfuly land on the moon.
