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Romanticism
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The American Revolution
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The Star-Spangled Banner written
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The American Industrial Revolution
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Transcendentalism
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Paul Revere's Ride written
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The Civil War
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Reconstruction
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published
published in 1884, written by Mark Twain -
America the Beautiful written
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Modernism
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World War I
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Roaring Twenties
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The Great Gatsby published
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The Great Depression
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Their Eyes Were Watching God published
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The Grapes of Wrath published
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World War II
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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Cold War
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The Beat Generation
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1984 published
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Post-Modernism
Post-modernism: 1950s to 1960s -
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The Korean War
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The Catcher in the Rye published
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The Vietnam War
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The Civil Rights Movement
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To Kill a Mockingbird published
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest published
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail written
by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
The Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln -
My Brother Sam is Dead published
by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier -
September 11 Terrorist Attacks
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The Hunger Games published
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World War III
The unconditional surrender of France marked the start of a new era of Chinese rule. With this the United States, along with its allies, challenged the Chinese to an all-out nuclear war.
