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The tower of babel. The climate of the earth begins to warm up.

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America was home to many peoples, including the Anasazi, Hohokam, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Pueblo peoples

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early settlement in Jamestown 104 British people.

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

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

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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The great awakening saw a lot of religious reform.

also baroque art.

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philosophers and scientists, the idea that man can figure out what God wants based off of observing the world.

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The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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"The American Renaissance"

the woman's suffrage movement, as well as the idea that Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition

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The youth of today are inspired and are a direct effect of the previous generations. There are still issues that persist in society, but we grow and continue to fight them.

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Industrialization

the War of 1812, and the California gold rush. (1848)

Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote the raven.

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S senator who held many people in trial for no reason.

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A poet who used strange punctuation and phrasing.

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An American poet whose Chinese family came from Indonesia.

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The Civil War and The Reconstruction. people were disillusioned and poor. politicians were corrupt showing life as hard as it was a new form of writing. it was called rationalism. Huckleberry fin and call of the wild were books from the time.

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His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. he was raised in Hannibal Missouri. that is also where Huckleberry Finn took place.

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She is an American novelist and poet. she was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her book "The Colour Purple." won this prize.

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1900-1950

loss of faith in "the American dream" bold experimentation.

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1914-1918

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1929-1939

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1939-1945

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The "roaring" 20s were a big moment culturally in America. We can almost observe this era as the origin of the modern American dream. there is a general sentiment that this era was light, fun, and bold.

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The great depression and the war heavily challenged the American dream during this time. The Dust Bowl also heavily challenged farmers.

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The 50s were a time of post-war prosperity.

This era is the origin of "rock and roll" as well as a lot of superhero comic books.

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Jazz and blues, as well as new forms of poetry, are born from black pride.

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Alcohol was banned across America.

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A great cultural shift affected the perception of the American dream. some great music, like the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, was popular during this time.

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in the 1980s, the American dream expanded for certain people there were many people who were living through an economic time of comfort, thus people started dreaming about grander things.

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The 90s and the early 2000s saw people struggling economically. Many people felt critical of the American Dream. Our war policy shifted dramatically during this time, leading to public distrust of the government that can still be felt today.

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The Vietnam War and the Korean War happened during postmodernism. Important authors of the time included Alice Walker and James Baldwin.

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Today we have a vast world of literature with people making a lot of claims in their books and telling different kinds of stories. Time will still tell regarding what sort of literary movement we are going through.