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The American Revolutionary War
War fought between the Kingdom and Great Britain and the thirteen British colonies of North America, in pursuit of independence from Britain -
The Declaration of Independence
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Gothic Movement
A sub-genre of Romanticism -
Nature
An essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, considered the birthplace of Transcendentalist's foundations -
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The Transcendentalist Movement
Largely sparked by Emerson's publication of the essay Nature -
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American Romanticism
Rough duration of what is known as the Literary American Renaissance -
The Raven
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Song of Myself
Written by Walt Whitman, considered one of the most influential poems written by an American -
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The American Civil War
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American Realism
Approximate period of the Literary Movement's rise to dominance in the U.S. -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Naturalism
Another widespread Literary movement in some ways similar to that of Realism in that both movements wished to present a photographically accurate version of "real" life -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
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World War I
Occurred during Wilson's presidency, who declared the U.S. nuetral until joining the Allies in 1917 -
The Road Not Taken
Written by Robert Frost -
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The Harlem Renaissance
Approximate span of the cultural movement, which took place predominantly among African Americans in Harlem, New York -
I, Too, Sing America
A Poem written by Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes -
The Great Gatsby
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The Sound and the Fury
A Southern Gothic novel written by William Faulkner -
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The Great Depression
The most widespread, deepest depression of America's History -
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Widespread Growth of Modernism in America
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Written by Zora Neale Hurston -
The Grapes of Wrath
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World War II
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The Cold War
Rough Time span of the lengthy conflict between the US and NATO allies against the communist party led by the USSR -
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Post-Modernism
In a large sense, a reaction against the Modernist movement -
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African American Civil Rights Movement
Aprroximate span of the worldwide political movement that took place chiefly in America for the equality of blacks -
The Catcher in the Rye
Written by J.D. Salinger -
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Southern Gothic novel written by Harper Lee, which the questioned the issues of racial inequality. -
Catch-22
Written by Joseph Heller -
Enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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First man on the Moon
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Contemporary American Literature
General date of origins to Contemporary literature, a continuation of Post-Modernism
