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Went from man made things to machine, but caused lots of unsafe environments
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Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida Missouri.
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His father, John Clemons, dies in 1847, causing their family to go into poverty
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His youngest brother, Henry, dies in an explosion in a steamboat, and Mark feels this is all his fault
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The war was the North, who were anti slavery, against the South, who were pro slavery. The war lasted from 1861-1865 after the North won.
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His first short story, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," is published by the New York Saturday Press
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He published his first book in 1869 called "The Innocents Abroad"
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Mark Twain marries Olivia Langdon
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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is published and becomes one of his most famous works
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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published and becomes another one of his most famous works
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His last novel, "Pudd'nhead Wilson," is published in 1894
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He died on April 21, 1910 in Redding, Conneticut