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Common Sense Published
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Declaration of Independance Drafted
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The United States of America Declares Independance from Great Britain
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Romanticist Literature Movement
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The Monroe Doctrine Issued
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Transcendentilism Emerged
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The Book of Moron Published
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Realism Emerges as a Movement
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Uncle Toms Cabin Published
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Naturalism
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Published
Written By L. Frank Baum -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclaire -
Modernism Begins
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Emergence of Modernism
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America's Involvement in WWI
The war began in 1914. -
Emergence of the Surrealist Movement
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Harlem Renneissance
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Post-Modernism Begins
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The Great Gatsby Published
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The Great Depression Struck
The worst economic disaster in the history of the world. -
Their Eyes Were Watching God Published
Written by Zora Neale Hurston. *Date Approximate -
Bill Cosby Born
One of the Greatest Americans to have ever graced the world. -
The Grapes of Wrath Published
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America's Involvement in WWII
War began in 1938. -
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The Cold War
The United States Involved in a Tense Weapons Standoff with the Soviet Union. -
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The Beat Generation
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Korean War
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Catcher in the Rye Published
Written by J.D. Salinger -
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The Vietnam War
American's Anti-Communist involvement in Vietnam. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers his Iconic "I Have A Dream Speech"
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I Am America, And So Can You!
Written by Stephen Colbert
