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Period Name and Dates & Period Characteristics 

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Period Name and Dates & Period Characteristics 

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Periodic Dates: 2200 B.C Tower Of Babel

2200 B.C to 1600 A.D

1607- Early settlement at Jamestown

Period Characteristics:

1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

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2 Facts and Pictures of Native Americans 

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2 Facts and Pictures of Native Americans 

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Fact 1: Native Americans Spoke of 300 languages

Fact 2: There are 574 Recognized tribes in the USA

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Puritanism and Early Settlement First American Colonies 1600-1800

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Puritanism and Early Settlement First American Colonies 1600-1800

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

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1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.

2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.

3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.

4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.

5. Used a plain style of writing.

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William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards
-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

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Fact 1: about 21000 Puritans actually made the move.

Fact 2: Puritans actually truly believed they were doing Gods work.

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"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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Fact 1: It took 17 days to write the Declaration of Independence

Fact 2: Benjamin Franklins Face is on the 100 Dollar Bill

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"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

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1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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1. The American revolutionary war was the longest conflict before Vietnam happened.

2. Nickel and Cobalt were both discovered in the mid 1700s

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"The American Renaissance"

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

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1. Transcendentalism started in about the 1840s and was based off religion

2. People believed that everything was a reflection of God

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June 24th 2022: Abortion laws come back into affect in certain US states

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- Extreme political debates begin causing riots and protests

-Doctors get charged with illegal Abortions

-Women start moving to different states for abortions

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An 11 year old girl was raped and forced to have a C-section due to this law almost killing her

24 out of 50 states have banned abortion

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Industrialization

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1800-1860

The War of 1812
1812-1815

Gold Rush (1848-1855

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

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Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

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1: All three American war campaigns in 1812 failed

2: Nobody actually became rich from it but more likely lost of their money or died from the long trip alone

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-The American Renaissance was one of the richest times in America

-This event lasted until the Civil war happened

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During the Cold War there was paranoia about hidden communists holding high positions in the American government

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-The red scare was hysteria in America because of Communists in the American government

Martin Luther King was labeled as a communist during the war

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Stephen was mostly inspired to write through the rough life of those in New York.

Stephen had a very Vivid and Stark writing style.

Stephen had multiple Articles published by the young age of 16 years old.

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Ezra Pounds and his writing had some of the most influence on the current writers.

Ezra had a large part in the American modernism

Ezra was also part of a voluntary Exile and moved back to Italy from America