Realism

  • Mark Twain was born.

    Mark Twain was born.
  • New York "boss"

    New York "boss"
    New york “boss” William tweed and his “tweed ring” of municipal crooks cost the city of new york an estimated two hundred million dollars.
  • Bret Harte

    Bret Harte
    Is the first author of realism to achieve wide popularity
  • USA

    USA
    USA ceased to be the simple orgarion democrary that Jefferson had cherished. People numbers ceased to “ labor in the earth” and moved to towns and cities to labor on the machines of new industries
  • Racial equality

    Racial equality
    The first official step toward nationwide racial equality was made when the thicteentl amendement to the constitution was adopted, abolishing slaverly within the USA.
  • Black freedom

    Black freedom
    Reconstruction acts set to protect black freedom and voting rights were established for blacks
  • First railroad

    First railroad
    The first transcontinental railroad was completed, linking the atlantic and pacific.
  • Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer
    Twains nostalgic recollections of his early boyhood stirred him to write "Tom Sawyer"
  • Rights for black people

    Rights for black people
    Rights for blacks began to erode; separate and unequal schools and public facilities were created.
  • Railroad

    Railroad
    The railroads even changed the way americans kept time when the more than fifty-six time zones in the USA were reduced to four
  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain
    Mark Twain published "Huckleberry Finn"one of the greatest books of world in literature.
  • WW1

    WW1
    War to world war 1, Steel production in the USA increased more than six hundred times , and Steel making became the nations dominant industry.
  • Emily Dickisnon

    Emily Dickisnon
    Emily Dickinson has her first collection of poetry published 4 years after her death
    - Harriet Beecher Stowe- most famous literary women in the world
  • Mark Twain died.

    Mark Twain died.
  • Native American culture

    Native American culture
    Native amercian culture had been ruined by the destruction of the buffalo and by the White man land hunger, his gold fever and his whiskey and diseases