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In the Enlightenment period there was two parts which contained Pilgrims and religon, and Patriots and politics. In the beginning the Anglican church of England was seperated. Then the American Revoulution began, thus the Patriotism increased.
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The Age of Faith involved Puritans and Pilgrims. Especially the seperation from the Anglican Church of England. Since religion dominated their lives and what they wrote. The believed in hard work and simple lifestyles.
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John Smith reaches the New World and docks on the Virgina Coast
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John Smith landed in Jamestown, which becomes the first settlement in the United States
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The Puritans find a stable settlement, Plymouth Rock, also known as the first solid land the Pilgrims walked on.
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When the Puritans established their first settlement in Plymouth, they decided they needed some kind of goverment. Thus, the Mayflower Compact. It established a goverment, and legal structure.
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York, Massachusetts becomes the first incorporated city in America.
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The constitution of the General Assembly of Rhode Island is prepared. It seperates the church from the state.
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slavery is legalized
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Anne Bradstreet publishes a poem, "To my Dear and loving Husband."
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The Salem which hunts, was created from preaching. It was a series of hearings and prosecutions against the beliefs of witch craft
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Ben Franklin publishes, "Poor Richards Almanack."
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The use of reason is more popular than to faith alone.
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British soliders fired into a Boston mob, it was a street fight. This later contributed to the start of the Revoulutionary War.
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The East India Company, sold surplus tea to America at a low cost. This annoyed the Americans, thus the Boston Tea Party emptyed the tea. Another step to the Revoulutionary War.
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The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia, protesting the Intolerable Acts
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Thomas Paine publishes the pamphelt, "Common Sense." In this pamphlet he persuaded the people to have the ability and right to become a free nation, with democracy.
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The Declaration of Independence was approved.
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Bill of Rights is passed out to states
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This period of time marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from Neoclassicism. Romanticism involevd a romantic mood a psychological desire to escape from the unpleasant realities.
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The population increase to 1 billion people in the World.
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This movement stresses individualism, instinctive, nature, and self reliance. Instead of the rational or logical thinking, their became the means for a conscious union of a individual psyche with a oversoul, life force, or a God.
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The Supreme Court decides that s lave ship full of Africans who were captured from their home, and is now bound to slavery is illegal.
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Edgar Allen Poe publishes a famous work called, "The Raven."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes, "The Scarlet Letter."
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The United States declares war on Mexico.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Her book was contributed to the start of the Civil War.
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Henry Thoreau completed his book about his life living at the Walden pond called, "Walden."
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Walt Whitman publishes his never ending book,"Leaves of Grass."
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The use of a sense of fact or the actual. Something that represents reality; which happens to be represented by the middle class. It is also viewed as nature as a powerful and indifferent force beyond man's control.
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Like Realism but a deeper, darker view of the world. The universe is unpredictable; fate is determined by chance; and free will is learned to just be an illusion. Peoples lives are shaped by forces they cannot understand and nor can they control.
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The 13th Amendment is took into action, thus abolishing slavery.
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Mark Twain publishes, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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Jack London publishes a famous work , "The Call of the Wild."
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The Treaty of Versailles is signed thus, ending WWI
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The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African American culture. It was widely expressed literature, art, music, and dance. After this movement ended there was lasting, postive effects that have come from it. Like the social, intellectual, and social climated of African Americans.
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Women gain the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants suffrage.
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E.E. Cummings publishes his poem, "Tulips and Chimneys."
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Scott F. Fitzgerald publishes, "The Great Gatsby." Although it was not as popular in his time, it becomes widely popular in the future.
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The stock market crashes, this affects millions of people throughout the United States, even people outside of America. The stock market crash beccomes to be known as the worst depression in the nation.
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Contemporary Literature is literature that is made in the present. So it has involved current day references. This literature also has present writing styles.
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America openly declares there neutrality with Europe after WWII has officially started when Germany invaded Poland.
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, destroying naval bases and killing at least 1,500 people on board them. This traumatic event led the United States into WWII
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The United States declares war on Japan
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United States declare war on Germany and Italy.
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Also known as the Invasion of Normandy, Is when more than 10 allied forces including the United States stormed the beaches of Normandy, France then continued with invading Europe.
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Langston Hughes publishes, "A Dream Deferred." Hughes was widely popular in the Harlem Renaissance.
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J.D. Salinger publishes a major work called, "Cathcer in The Rye."
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Racial seggregation in schools are declared unconsitutional
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Martin Luther King Junior, a Civil Rights leader, is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony.
