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Enlightenment
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 Age of Faith
The time period of first settleing in America and writing about the new land and new religious inspirations.
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Coming to The New World
The pilgrams are able to arrive to the new world after a long voyage from England.
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Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards: A Life -
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Age of Reason
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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American Revolution Begins
The fight began in Lexington around 5 am. British troops invade which starts the war.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-american-revolution-begins -
Thomas Paine
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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Romanticism
The reaction of neoclassicism and formalities of preceding periods, where imagination is over reason.
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Louisiana Purchase
the U.S. purchases 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France which expands them to the west more.
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Transcendentalism
A movement to improve logical reason and better uderstand the individual and the natural world.
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Edgar Allen Poe
His story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," first appears in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine.
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Compromise of 1850
Laws making California a free state and ending slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Herman Melville
Was the writer of the famous novel Moby-Dick
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moby-dick-published -
Henry David Thoreau
His collection of essays, Walden, or Life in the Woods, was published.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-david-thoreau-leaves-walden-and-moves-in-with-the-emersons -
Frederick Douglas
Writes "Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?"
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Walt Whitman
He writes "Oh Captain! My Captain!" in honor of Abraham Lincoln's death.
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Realism
Starting to become more in tune with reality and the intrest in the scientific method.
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Abraham Lincoln's Death
Lincoln was assainated in the Ford theater by John Wilks Booth.
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Naturalism
The time period where science was put into the meaning of man.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
Mark Twain
Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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Washinton
Admitted as a state.
http://www.history.com/topics/states -
Jack London
While in Alaska he wrote "The Son of the Wolf."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-london-is-born -
First Airplane Flies
The Wright Brothers successfuly fly the first aircraft near Kitty Hawk, NC.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies -
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Moderism
Defined vaguely by philosophical movements including symbolism, futurism and surrealism.
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T.S. Eliot
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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Harlem Renissance
A time of African American creativity the was centered in Harlem.
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Ernest Hemingway
Writes "The Sun Also Rises"
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First Car Radio
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation founded by Paul Galvin
http://www.history.com/topics/radio-and-television -
Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes
The two join together to create the play "Mule Bone."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/zora-neale-hurston-is-born -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Contemporary Literature
A vast variety of writing places after WWll.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
J.D. Salinger
"The Catcher In The Rye" is published by Salinger.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/catcher-in-the-rye-is-published -
9/11
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
