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Period: Apr 7, 1500 to
Fashion
Many layers were worn due to miny ice age and cooling temperatures, long gown, usually with sleeves, worn over a kirtle or undergown, with a linen chemise or smock worn next to the skin. -
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fashion
Figured silks with elaborate pomegranate or artichoke patterns are still seen in this period. A lighter style of scrolling floral motifs, woven or embroidered, was also popular. Also The great flowering of needlelace occurred in this period. -
Shakespeares Hamlet is published
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Don Quixote was published
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First slaves arrived in Virgina : Beginning slavery
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fashion
Long vertical line, with horizontal emphasis at the shoulder. Longer and tighter sleeves became the new trend. The body was tightly corseted, with a low, broad neckline and dropped shoulder. In later decades, the overskirt was drawn back and pinned up to display the petticoat, which was heavily decorated -
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fashion
Formal dress consisted of the stiff-bodiced mantua. A closed petticoat, sometimes worn with an apron, replaced the open draped mantua skirt of the previous period. Distinction was made in this period between full dress worn at court and for formal occasions, and undress or everyday, daytime clothes. As the decades progressed, fewer and fewer occasions called for full dress. -
Robinson Crusoe published
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Gulliver's travels published
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First Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening was a cultural and religious Evangelical movement over the 1730-40's. It changed the course of the Protestant religion in Europe and America. It also created a divide between traditionalists and revivalists, who encouraged more of an emotional religious practice. -
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fashion
Went away from hoop skirt and more into sleeveslessntight fitting dresses. A low-necked gown, worn over a petticoat became a very big hit. -
Declaration of independance
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Second Great Awakening
The second major religious movement of the era, the Second Great Awakening was when Baptist and Methodist followings gained large amounts of practicers. Unlike the first where there was a division among emotional practices, this awakening was very emotional, while rejecting enlightenment. -
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fashion
Hoops cam back. Women had different dresses for each time of the day. Couldn't be above the knee -
Pride and Prejudice published
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Frankinstein published
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Manifest Destiny
Idea amoung many Americans that westward expansion was their destiny from God -
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Transdentalist movement
believed in the inhertant good in mankind -
Political Parties
Gaining popularity and recognition in 1829, political parties from there on out shaped the course of politics. Most of the world followed and developed political parties if they had not already. Although the American people had been advised against it by George Washington, the creation of these parties seemed inevitable and necessary. -
Jane Eyre published
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Cultural Trends in America
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Victorian Standards of Art
Upper class writers and professors set standards of quality art to improve American interior furnishings, ceramics ad literature. They hoped to improve the arts by setting these criteria for artistic culture. They wanted to remove all sexual allusions and religious critcism, as it looked below the upper class to include that in art. -
My Grandfather's Clock
This song written by Henry Clay Work, was about the dangers of leisure and the 8 hours work, 8 hours sleep and 8 hours 'play'. Time for leisure would lead to bad things and bad influences on people, he stressed staying busy and not falling into the trap of boredom. -
Vaudeville
A new type of entertainment consisting of theater, amusment parks and dance halls. They allowed men and women and was a popular form of new leisure. It became a part of the new entertainment culture and drew the biggest crowds to their theaters. -
Ragtime Music
This type of music was favored by the poor working class and it first originated from black saloons in the South and Midwest. -
First Professional Boxing Match
Boxing became the a popular new cultural event in America, it was popular due to the idea that strong and brave men were the only ones capable of doing it. -
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born 25 October 1881 and died 8 April 1973. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Some oh his most famous works were "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Gertrude Stein" and "Femme au café." -
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was born December 8, 1886 and died November 24, 1957. He was a Mexican painter. His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. SOme his most famous were " Man at the Crossroads", his mural of the Mexican history, and "Detroit Industry." -
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Deemed the most influential pre World War I book about naval strategies. Mahan, the author, argued that a strong navy would lead to a strong country and winning major wars, this book helped develop ideas for The Great White Fleet. -
Invention of Motion Picture Camera
The first Motion Picture was invented and would go on to invent movies starting at one minute all the way up to the movies we have now. -
beginning of Progressism
many groups began to fight for rights and privilages -
Andre Masson
Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. He fought for France during World War I and was seriously injured. Some his most famous work was "Automatic Drawing", "Pedestal Table in the Studio", and " L'Origine du monde." -
Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech or Salvador Dali was born 11 May 1904 and died 23 January 1989. He was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for striking designs in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory. -
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was born July 25, 1870 and died March 30, 1966 was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive colors and idealized neo-classical imagery. Some of his famous painting included 'The Dinky Bird", "The Lanturn Bearers" and "Princess Parizade Bringing Home the Singing Tree." -
Swanee
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Cultural Trends of the 1920's
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Siddhartha
This 1922 novel written by Hermann Hesse was first written in German about spiritual self discovery, a topic not widely written about at the time. Unlike the stories of glamour and riches of this time period that were commonly written about, Hesse explores the side that most were not familiar with. -
The Great Gastby
Written by F Scott Fitzgerald, this book of the 1920's reflects the mindset of a writter of the lost generation. Fitzgerald wrote about a wealthy community in Manhattan and Long Island, observing the material excess and glamour of the time. -
Mrs. Dalloway
Written by Virgnia Woolf in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is regarded as one of her best novels and is applauded for ideas of femminism. Mrs Dalloway tells the story of the life of a high society woman of the post World War era. Unlike Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Woolf was not one of the Lost Generation Authors and wrote with a more hopeful and happy style of writing. -
Phantom of the Opera
A book turned musical turned film was first made in 1925 as a silent film. As an early horror film, it was also one of the last popular silent films. It was best known for its intricate costumes and makeup that made up for the lack of sound. -
The General
This American silent comedy was seen as one of the worst and caught the tail end of the silent film era causing a bad outcome. It was seen as humorless and resulted in meager box office profits forcing the once independent director to join an agency. In the last 10 years the film has been reevaluated and is seen as important to the silent film collection and American culture at the time. -
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises was by Ernest Hemingway, another author of the Lost Generation. This novel was regarded as one of Hemingway's greatest works by close friends and editors. The story tells about the lives of expats living in Europe and all of Hemingway's characters are based upon real aquaintences of his. -
Metropolis
Considered the grandfather of all science fiction films, Metropolis was the first of its kind and opened the door for the genre. Running at just over 3 hours, it was one of the longest flims in that time period. Though Critically acclaimed, it was revised, edited and changed many times after the release date. -
The Jazz Singer
This movie is on the list of best American films of all time and started the decline in popularity of silent flims nationwide. Detailing the life of aspiring jazz singer and the obstacles in his way, this film was black and white and included many songs by famous artists such as Al Jolson. It is preserved for being culturally, historically and aesthetically significant to American history. -
First TV Broadcast
This was the date of the first official TV broadcast authorized by the Federal Radio Commission starting with an experimental broadcast to a DC suburb for the first 18 months. This created the wave of TV news and programs that would come and take over radio. News would soon become faster and TV's became more and more common in every household. -
Film Style of the Great Depression(1929-1939)
Films of the Great Depression varied greatly but mostly consisted of a classic love story or an escape. The love story was often rocky at first but transformed into a life of hope and happiness, which was what people of this time hoped would happen to them. The movies about an escape made people able to relax and escape their hardships for a few hours. Film makers of this era strived to make movies that allowed them and the people that watched hope for better times. -
Painting Style of the Great Depression
Paintings of the Great Depression mirrored the world around them. Artists like Thomas Benton would paint about the struggling working class and the hoplessness of the world around them. There were also many paintings that showed an escape and that people would look at to get a taste of a life away from theirs -
Writing Style of the Great Depression(1929-1939)
Authors like Hemingway and Steinbeck were of great popularity during this time because they wrote stories about future prosperity and simplicity. Steinbeck especially wrote about how pure life used to be when it was lived with nature and how it would be better to return to that. They focused on rejecting the new time that brought on this economic depression and thought back to when things were simpler. -
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Cultural Trends of the Great Depression
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Thomas Hart Benton
Benton was a painter who's paintings stressed importance of returing to pre depression times of agrarian simplicity. He later became a social activist like many painters in his time through their increase in expression and influence in their work. Benton was part of the WPA and did many projects for them while representing the Great Depression artists as a whole. -
Snow White
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first animated full length movie and was Walt Disney's first animated classic. It was an especially light movie of the era that was hopefull and inpired a sense of love and laughter -
Grapes of Wrath
This book written by John Steinbeck reflects life of actual famers in the dust bowl during the Great Depression. It became so popular due to its realistic setting and relatable story line. People could realte to this book and could look at is as something that is close their familes story. -
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz was a movie similar to the events of real life. Natural disaster swept the area and transported Dorothy to a magical land. For Dorothy, it was an escape from her life which mirrored the struggle of the dust bowl victims and their eagerness to have it all be a bad dream and wake up from it soon. -
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Cultural Trends of WWII
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Pinocchio was released in theaters
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First Curious George Released
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Roald Dahl published The Gremlins
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Casablanca was released in theathers
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A tree grows in Brooklyn released in theathers
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George Orwell published Animal Farm
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Diners of the 1950's
A popular casual restaurant starting in the 1950's. Easily recognizable by their stainless steel exteriors and themed interiors. Serving primarily "American" fast food and was a spot where families and friends could casually go for low prices. -
Rock n Roll
First gaining popularity in the 1950's, Rock n Roll was created by a mix of many different cultures and genres. Jazz, Blues, Western Swing all influenced this genre that the 1950's was best known for. -
Cars in the 1950's
Cars became increasingly popular in the 1950's with consumers buying more units that ever before. The trend of the car itself was fuled by the trend of wanting to travel further distances than walking could provide and also the attraction of freedom. In the 1950's, Chevrolet was the most popular car brand, selling significantly more cars than any other brand. -
Suburban Household Items of the 1950's
A trend that has continued on into present day and out of suburbs into cities, the household items and appliances swept over towns in the 1950's. The washing machine, vacuum and televisions were items purchased most during the decade. -
I Love Lucy
Released in the early 1950's, I Love Lucy was one of America's favoirte TV shows that attracted millions of viewers for every season. The shows light and humours attitude reflected that of the 1950's prosperity and consumerism. -
The tonight Show aired
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Elvis returned from war
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Hippie culture develpoed
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Breakfast at Tiffany's released
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Summer of Love
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The Jungle Book released
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Woodstock
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John Hancock Buliding completed
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New York Mets won the World Series
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released
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Soft Rock music popular
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Disco Music became popular
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Paper back books became more popular
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First arcade video game released
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The Godfather released
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Stevie Wonder released 'You are the Sunshine of my life'
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Jackson Five relased Dancing Machine
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Carrie by Stephen King published
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Motown/ R&B blues became popular
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Rocky released
