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Called the Enlightenment period due to the influence of science and logic, this period is marked in US literature by political writings. Genres included political documents, speeches, and letters. Benjamin Franklin is typical of this period. There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of common sense (logic) and science. There was not a divorce from the Bible but an adding to or expanding of the truths found there.
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This lead to the Declaration of Independence which was written and announced to Great Britain shortly after
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Sub-genre of Romanticism often involving sublime use of the supernatural, characters at the mercy or helpless to higher powers which they don't understand and a reoccuring motif that one can have both evil and good characteristics to their personality
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"Father of the American Novel" This was the first American adventure story,
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First Transcendentalist essay, not a novel hehe:)
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Style of writing in which the real world is presented in an unembellished way. It seeked to stand for experiences that are usual or typical rather than extraordinary or exotic.
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Enforcement Acts sought to end the violence from the Klu Klux Klan
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in England in December 1884 and then in the United States in February 1885
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Although its origins were European, naturalism was an important movement in American literature from the 1890s until the 1920s. It is seen similar to realism, sharing emphasis on depicting surface reality, naturalism is more than a literary technique, involving the philosophy of determinism. Naturalism also emphasizes the limited ability of humans to impose will upon their own destiny, and also in devaluing the imagination's embellishment of reality
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Imagism writers wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures.
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(Exact date unknown)
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The 21st ammendment's purpose was to end the prohibition of alcohol
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