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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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there are 600 tribal nations and 175 languages!

https://www.worktolive.info/blog/when-times-go-low-go-high-with-giant-sequoia-therapy

https://www.thecollector.com/where-did-native-americans-originate-from/

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The Sequoia tree is named in honor of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah who helped his people make the alphabet

https://medium.com/@frankpetrouskie/6-quick-and-fun-facts-about-native-americans-daf5de5e1f48

https://www.worktolive.info/blog/when-times-go-low-go-high-with-giant-sequoia-therapy

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Native Americans today have a thriving population and still celebrate their heritage and culture!

https://nationaltoday.com/native-american-day/

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 
1600-1800

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 
1600-1800

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

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

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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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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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The Mayflower compact was signed to give agreement to the settlers and avoid mutiny

https://themayflowersociety.org/history/the-mayflower-compact/

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The first thanksgiving happened in 1621 when both the Indians and the pilgrims gathered together during the first harvest

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/first-thanksgiving

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it was the first permanent settlement in the new world for the English.

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/jamestown/

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The Salem witch trials only lasted one year and around 169 people were killed/imprisoned

https://www.slideserve.com/emily/in-england-witchcraft-was-punishable-by-death-16-people-had-been-hanged-in-america-prior-to-the-salem-witchcraft-trials

https://www.posterazzi.com/witch-trial-execution-1692-nthe-hanging-of-a-witch-at-salem-massachusetts-in-1692-colored-engraving-19th-century-poster-print-by-granger-collection-item-vargrc0010122/?srsltid=AfmBOooopQHKC7-W9n4NSBqVJxBQB-xqciK3Fd2SkseciDt0lshk0uWA

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Jamestown is now one of the most historic places in the U.S. having several museums

https://www.jyfmuseums.org/visit/jamestown-settlement

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1607-1783 "The Age of Reason"/ "The Enlightenment"

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1607-1783 "The Age of Reason"/ "The Enlightenment"

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1607 - Early settlement - Jamestown

1775-1783 - Revolutionary War

Characteristics:

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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The first navigation act declared which ships would be able to travel through America and gave laws.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1600-1700-important-dates-and-events

https://www.americanrevolution.org/navigation-acts/

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Nathaniel Bacon rebels against Sir William Berkeley causing a small civil war

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1600-1700-important-dates-and-events

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bacons-rebellion-1676-1677/

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Tobacco was a very popular crop and it was popular in Europe so it was grown in Jamestown and brought great profit

https://www.slideserve.com/fai/facts-about-jamestown-powerpoint-ppt-presentation

https://www.studentsofhistory.com/jamestown-colony

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40-45% of Americans supported the war.

https://flowvella.com/s/36tr/18E98451-911D-4B6E-94FF-63EF5940C72E

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/american-revolution-faqs

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People began to understand science and apply it to the rest of their views

https://bhavanajagat.com/2008/03/18/attain-enlightenment-rational-empirical-inquiry-vs-intuition/

https://www.history.com/articles/enlightenment

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The scientific method was developed during the discoveries.

https://bhavanajagat.com/2008/03/18/attain-enlightenment-rational-empirical-inquiry-vs-intuition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

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The scientific method has helped produce invaluable knowledge for science today.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-the-scientific-method

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2416472-why-science-relies-too-much-on-mathematics/

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

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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America's literature was influenced by European Literature

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/american-renaissance/24635750

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=952d9a3ded5a8be7&sxsrf=AE3TifPWE1h9SlAORg1-RRMpg3A1yrOeXw:1760370719244&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeioyp3OhN11EY0n5qfq-zEMZldv_eRjZ2XLYc5GnVnMEIxC4WQfoNDH7FwchyAayypSFRVX7Gyzf60Gn3h439oyzmPFMaoyP2CH3LS6X7h_JBwEUYbsRPK0xRmsG6rLhQ1fbKFrOXXuTF7mVtvKflTnX2R4d4zDCMCE1OnATYkPmOwqPbw&q=american+literature&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP6JL7w6GQAxUwOEQIHcmCB4kQtKgLegQIFRAB&biw=1512&bih=768&dpr=2#vhid=jjj8SIBTTca-5M&vssid=mosaic

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Was also called "The Romantic Period" of America.

https://prezi.com/4lcrvdhfmy4t/american-renaissance/

https://brewminate.com/the-american-renaissance-in-context-in-the-19th-century/

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Brook Farm was a utopian social experiment community that was used to test a new type of living, it only lasted from 1841-1847.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brook-Farm

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The Transcendentalism club was started in 1836 by Henry Hedge. It was a group of philosophers who were highly educated.

https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/transcendentalism/transcendental_club.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Club

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Taking a Stand in our Modern Day Fact #1

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Taking a Stand in our Modern Day Fact #1

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Charlie Kirk was a very strong Christian and political figure who took a stand to help make our country better and bring back good Christian and American values in our country.

Image source: https://www.ccv.org/news/just-in-charlie-kirk-to-keynote-cleveland-gala-on-sept-26

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Ray Comfort is a Christian Evangelist who has been taking a stand against the world and sin to bring people to Christ.

Image Source: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/contributors/ray-comfort/

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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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A result of the conflict in France during the Napoleonic Wars

https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-1812

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300,000 thousand people came to search for gold during the gold rush

https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-Gold-Rush.

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The Manifest destiny was an idea describing that we should expand into the west, creating the Westward expansion and Indian Removal Act

https://www.britannica.com/event/Manifest-Destiny

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The Indian Removal Act was an even that occurred in 1830, which forcefully required Native Americans to relocate and the route where many Indians died was known as the "Trail of Tears"

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indian-Removal-Act

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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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Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as a New World poet.

Her work, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America was published in London in 1650.

She didn't go to school, but was instead educated by her father

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-bradstreet

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An event where the settlers claimed there were witches in town and they hunted them and hanged them

https://www.salem.org/salem-witch-trials/

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Bridget Bishop was the first person hanged for witchcraft in the Salem Witch trials. She was accused because she lived a life that was outside of Puritan standards.

https://www.salem.org/blog/bridget-bishop-hanged-june-10-1692/

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September 6 1793-1794

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1. He was a cartoonist in the 1920s and 30s

2. He wrote his first children's poem in 1936

3. During the war, he helped make documentaries and films for American soldiers.

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/dr-seuss

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/theodor-geisel

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February 9, 1950 - first salvo of McCarthy

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February 9, 1950 - first salvo of McCarthy

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Joseph McCarthey gains fame and the press in his first Salvo.

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McCarthey was exposed after he interviewed many army officials, being seen as cruel and mean-spirited

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1. Robert Frost usually wrote about settings and social and philosophical issues and themes.

2. Robert Frost won the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960

3. His first poem was "My Butterfly. An Elegy"

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost

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1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

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Civil War

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Reconstruciton Era

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

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Realism art was very influential and almost shaped the time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(art_movement)

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How the government handled the time after the civil war and the post confederate state of America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era#/media/File:ReconstructionEraColl.png

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-Mark Twain
He was sick for the first 10 years of his life

His real name is Samuel L. Clemens

source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain

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Susan Glaspell

Was a playwright

won the Pulitzer Prize

collaborated with other artists

source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Glaspell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glaspell

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

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1914-1918

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1929-1939

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1939-1945

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

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Art was used to capture realism from different perspectives and was motivated by the culture and time period

https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art/Modernism-in-the-visual-arts-and-architecture

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World War 1 happened and was the first big war that quickly became an international conflict starting in 1914

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I

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For the first time in American History, women were able to vote in the 20s

https://www.history.com/articles/roaring-twenties-history

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/nyregion/new-york-today-a-century-of-women-voting.html

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Started in 1929 and lasted till 1939, was the most severe economic depression in History.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression

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The Korean war starts in 1950 with conflicts between North Korea and South Korea

https://www.britannica.com/event/Korean-War

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America starts developing space exploration after Russia's launch of Sputnik in 1958

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/nasas-60-years-6-objects

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Harlem Renaissance

"The Jazz Age"

"The Roaring 20s"

1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

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"The New Negro Movement"

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Prohibition

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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

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Women's fashion dramatically changed as clothes became more modern and women's fashion entered the flapper era and other trends.

https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1920-1929/

https://www.peacockandpearls.com/post/10-iconic-looks-of-the-1920s

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World War 2 was a major global conflict that lasted from 1939-1940

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Forces-and-resources-of-the-European-combatants-1939

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In the 60s, the American Dream can be expressed through the Civil Rights movement and the fight against Racial Injustice.

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives/what-happened-to-the-american-dream/

https://www.libs.uga.edu/russell-library/exhibits/iamaman

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There was a lot of poverty in the 60s and 70s, so families could dream of having more money or having a better income.

https://www.google.com/search?q=poverty+in+the+60s+and+70s+america&client=firefox-b-1-d&hs=vyD&sca_esv=ae2767497e191e28&udm=2&biw=1512&bih=780&sxsrf=ANbL-n4mXb0WQGqlZbmuETh4uTGt8_108Q%3A1774040219151&ei=m7S9aaP-CNPQkPIPwfbvkQs&ved=0ahUKEwjjt9Horq-TAxVTKEQIHUH7O7IQ4dUDCBU&uact=5&oq=poverty+in+the+60s+and+70s+america&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyIicG92ZXJ0eSBpbiB0aGUgNjBzIGFuZCA3MHMgYW1lcmljYUi8H1C-AViAHHABeACQAQCYAUagAacDqgEBOLgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAKACAJgDAIgGAZIHAKAH6AKyBwC4BwDCBwDIBwCACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-img#sv=CAMSVhoyKhBlLXcwWFBhU2hvLUtMZDVNMg53MFhQYVNoby1LTGQ1TToOaGFhTFA1clROaS1qWk0gBCocCgZtb3NhaWMSEGUtdzBYUGFTaG8tS0xkNU0YADABGAcg9JuJqw5KCBABGAEgASgB

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives/what-happened-to-the-american-dream/

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The 80s was a decade of consumerism and materialism, the economy was booming and people were making more money. The American dream focused around wealth and materialism.

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born

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As seen throughout history, working hard is a main part of the American dream, which was still present in the 80s.

https://flowvella.com/s/2jgm/1980s:-American-Dream?iframe=true

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born

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In the 90s and 2000s, buying a home was really important and was the American Dream for most people

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/american-dream.asp#toc-exploring-the-roots-and-evolution-of-the-american-dream

https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/

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With the new development of technology, the American Dream shifted to buying new technology and developing it to become rich

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born

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1950–present

1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

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1950-1953

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1954-1975

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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

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America sent astronauts to walk on the moon in 1969, winning the space race between the Soviet Union during the cold war.

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing

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In 2003, the U.S. entered a war with Iraq which lasted until 2011

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iraq-War