American Literature Overview/Timeline

By mrdavis4y
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    Puritanism

    Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts. There is a Great Awakening. People started to realized things and influenced their wrighting. Writers had certain beliefs which influenced society. It caused people to branc out and gave them the freedom to believe in what they wanted to believe
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    Rationalism

    The American revolution was going on during this period. People began to rebel and it caused them to write about their freedoms. The literature influenced the people and also caused them to rebel. Americans wanted freedom and the literature reflected that.

  • To My Dear & Loving Husband

    Anne Bradstreet

  • Sinners in Hands of Angry God

    Jonathan Edwards

  • Speech to Virginia Convention

    Patrick Henry

  • Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Jerfferson

  • from The Amercian Crisis

    Thomas Paine
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    Romanticism

    The French Revolution and American Revolution was going on. The events caused people to be more optimistic and creative. The literature casued people to be more open minded. It showed that there was change in American society

  • The Devil and tom Walker

    Washington Irving

  • The Raven etc

    Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Raven etc

    Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Scarlett Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Moby Dick

    Herman Melville
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    Realism

  • Abe Lincoln is elected

  • S. Carolina secceds from The United States

  • Lincoln signs Homestead Act

  • Battle of Gettysburg

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    Reigonalism

  • Congress Passes 13th Amendment

  • Civil War Ends

  • Congress Passes Civil Rights Bill of 1865

  • Grant is elected President

  • The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Naturalism

  • Wounded Knee

    Last Major Battle between U.S troops and Native Americans in Wounded Knee, South Dakota

  • Ellis Island Opens

  • First Pro Football game

    First pro football game plated in Latrobe, Pennsylvania

  • Wright Bros Fly

    Wright Brothers fly their airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC

  • Russo-Japanese War Begins

  • San Fransico has Earthquake

    Earthquake kills at least 3,000 people
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    Harem Renaissance

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    Postmodernism