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Years: pre 1607

Major Historical Events: Columbus arrived in America (1492) Ponce de leon lands in Florida (1513), Sitting Bull was killed (1871)

Major authors: Tribes sioux and Arapaho

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Time Period: Pre-Colonial

Dates: Published in the 1840s and set pre 1607

Point of View: First Person

Themes: sin, guilt, self-punishment, God's anger, sacrifice

Connection: Sitting Bull was killed in 1871

“The whites are crazy father have pity on me, I am dying for thirst” (Arapaho stanza 35-38). This quote shows how the Siouz tribe were originally fearful and did not respect the whites for taking away their resources and trying to harm them in the past.

My theme is how the Sioux have always been very loyal to their culture expressed by the quote “I gave them fruits… I saw him when he flew down to the earth; he has renewed our life” (stanza 3-10). The Sioux being as loyal as they were, they had sacrificed their valuable resources and gave a new life to stand up and sacrifice themselves to the whites.

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Years: 1607-1775

Major Historical Events: Jamestown was declared by the US (1607) East & West Jersey became Province of New Jersey (1702) San Antonio, Texas founded by Spanish (1718) The city of Charlestown, South Carolina was founded. (1670)

Major Authors: William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Anne bradstreet

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Time Period: Colonialism

Dates: Published in 1741 set from 1607-1775

Point of View: First Person

Themes: equality, right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Connection: Many different significant laws had been established when The Declaration Of Independence had been published. One of the laws that were most controversial was equality. The quote "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…" (6). This describes how men are singled out to be the only ones who are considered equal during this time. Which is the complete opposite of what The Declaration of Sentiments published by Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues, relating to her quote "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal” (Stanton 6). This brings out the difference between the two and how one argues for men being equal and the other argues how both men and women are considered equal.

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Years: 1776-1820

Major Historical Events: (1776- Dec. of Independence) (1848- Dec. of sentiments and resolutions) (1791- Autobiography of B. Franklin)

Major authors: Jefferson, Franklin, Stanton, Phillis wheatley, Edgar Allen Poe

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Time Period: Enlightenment

Dates: Published in 1791 and set in 1776

Point of View: First Person

Themes: equality, right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Connection: Many different significant laws had been established when The Declaration Of Independence had been published. One of the laws that were most controversial was equality. The quote "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…" (6). This describes how men are singled out to be the only ones who are considered equal during this time. Which is the complete opposite of what The Declaration of Sentiments published by Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues, relating to her quote "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal” (Stanton 6). This brings out the difference between the two and how one argues for men being equal and the other argues how both men and women are considered equal.

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Years: 1820-1860

Major historical Events: (1823 - Monroe Doctrine enunciated in America) (1833 - Emancipation Act receives its final reading, abolishing slavery in British) Victorian era (1837-1860)

Major Authors: edgar allen poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville

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Dates: published in 1850 set in 1642-1649

Point of view: Third Person

Theme: the idea of sin and punishment

Connection: The Victorian era

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone the quote “On the other hand, a penalty, which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself” (Hawthorne 44). The author expressed that certain sins can result in a punishment as death which are related to the times when a crime had been committed in the Victorian era. Hawthorne uses “her especial friend, had taught her the secret, before this last good lady had been hanged for Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder” (212). The significance of this quote is to show how people would receive the punishment of death and be hanged for the sins that they had committed.

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Years: 1840-1860

Major Historical Events: Dred Scott vs Sandford (1857), Oregon becomes the 33rd U.S. state (1859), Mexican War (1848)

Major Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller

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Dates: published 1865 & set in 1865

Point of View: First Person

Theme: death, grief, victory, human reasoning, abstract

Connection: The historical event Dred Scott vs Sandford  was a fight brought to court about equality for African Americans during the time of segregation. In Emerson’s excerpt “Nature” it is brought up how everything is connected through the alliance of God, man, and nature. Emerson portrays “Nature never wears a mean appearance” (Emerson 3). This is important because it completely goes against Sandford’s point in the battle vs Dred Scott because he is arguing that specifically African Americans aren’t fit for the world. What makes nature so beautiful is that it gives a man the ability to become one with himself and bring out the inner child that was once a part of him. Relating to the quote "The sun illuminates the eye of the man, but shines the heart of the child" (15). This explains how a man can be free but looking back to Sandford’s point it is the opposite because he believes that African Americans don’t deserve freedom.

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Years: 1820-1865

Major Historical Events: Emancipation Proclamation (1863) The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) The American Civil War (1861) Texas Declaration of independence (1835) The Treaty Of Cahuenga

Major Authors: Frederick Diuglas, William Wells-brown, Harriet Jacobs

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Dates: published and set in 1845

Point of View: First Person

Theme: White supremacy, segregation, slavery, freedom

Connection:- emancipation proclamation

Relating to the quote “we pledged ourselves afresh, in the most solemn manner, that, at the time appointed, we would certainly start in pursuit of freedom” (Douglass 75). This exemplifies how Douglass had started on his journey for finally achieving freedom just like he has always wanted. My Theme is freedom Douglass had started to gain his own freedom. Acknowledged by the quote “I was full of hope. I expected to have been safe in a land of freedom” (80). Douglass had been convinced that he had finally found the freedom that he was looking for and could now live in peace.

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Years: 1901-1950

Major Historical Events: World War I (1914-1918), The Great Depression (1929-1939), Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937)

Major authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway

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Dates: Published in 1925 & Set in 1922

Point of View: First Person

Themes: The American dream, wealth, War

Connection: World War I

“I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began” (Fitzgerald 51). This quotes illustrates Gatsb’s significant role that which he had played during the time of World War 1 and what position he had on his mission in France. Times have changed in Gatsby’s life, nowadays he is this very wealthy and famous man who lives his best life with all his luxurious items. Reflecting on the quote “it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion” (7).