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Known for its influence on science and logic and its political writings such as documents, letters, and speeches. Also the first time people started to have ideas that werent in the bible.
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The time period of first settleing in America and writing about the new land and new religious inspirations.
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The pilgrams are able to arrive to the new world after a long voyage from England.
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life
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The time right after the Age of Faith where man started to change their views of themselves, started o pursuit knowledge and the universe.
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The fight began in Lexington around 5 am. British troops invade which starts the war.
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On this date Thomas Paine published the pamphlet Common Sence, which talked about how it is obvious that they should be free from the British government. This is said to of lead to the American Rvolution.
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The reaction of neoclassicism and formalities of preceding periods, where imagination is over reason.
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the U.S. purchases 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France which expands them to the west more.
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A movement to improve logical reason and better uderstand the individual and the natural world.
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His story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," first appears in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine.
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Laws making California a free state and ending slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Was the writer of the famous novel Moby-Dick
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His collection of essays, Walden, or Life in the Woods, was published.
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Writes "Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?"
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He writes "Oh Captain! My Captain!" in honor of Abraham Lincoln's death.
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Starting to become more in tune with reality and the intrest in the scientific method.
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Lincoln was assainated in the Ford theater by John Wilks Booth.
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The time period where science was put into the meaning of man.
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Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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Admitted as a state.
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While in Alaska he wrote "The Son of the Wolf."
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The Wright Brothers successfuly fly the first aircraft near Kitty Hawk, NC.
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Defined vaguely by philosophical movements including symbolism, futurism and surrealism.
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His first major work, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, was published and was concidered as the invention of a new kind of poetry.
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A time of African American creativity the was centered in Harlem.
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Writes "The Sun Also Rises"
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Galvin Manufacturing Corporation founded by Paul Galvin
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The two join together to create the play "Mule Bone."
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Elected president three years into the Great Depression
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A vast variety of writing places after WWll.
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"The Catcher In The Rye" is published by Salinger.
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Terrorist crash two planes into the World Trade Center in NYC. The third planes hit the Pentagon and the forth was a miss and landed in a open field.
http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks
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