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Period characteristics

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Native Americans: Period characteristics 

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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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In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement.

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In the early 1600s Indians in the Saint Lawrence River valley established trading relationships with the French

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

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

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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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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies AUTHOR AND WORKS

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies AUTHOR AND WORKS

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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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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies  FACT #1

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies  FACT #1

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More than 200 people were accused. In 1692 Salem which trails

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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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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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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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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS 

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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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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" AUTHOR AND WORKS

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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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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America.

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution.

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT 1

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The American Revolution started on April 19, 1775

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" FACT #2

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On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. This replaced the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use

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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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Transcendentalism is a 19th-century school of American theological and philosophical thought that combined respect for nature and self-sufficiency with elements of Unitarianism and German Romanticism.

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In the 1830s, the philosophy of Transcendentalism arose in New England

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RomanticismAND DATES: PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS 

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RomanticismAND DATES: PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS 

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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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Gold rush was the largest mass migration in U.S history

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Around 15,000 Americans died in the war of 1812

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Puritans believed in education and founded Harvard in 1636

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Puritan literature relied on Biblical allusions

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Taking a stand modern day 2021 - 2022 PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS 

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Taking a stand modern day 2021 - 2022 PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS 

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Taking a stand against modern day slavery and taking a stand for heath safety

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Kids in Maldova take a stand on modern day slavery

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Taking a stand in modern day slavery FACT #2

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Taking a stand in modern day slavery FACT #2

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Across the state on August 8-12, 2022, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) is partnering with employers to "Take a Stand" for workplace safety and health

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Realism: Civil war 1850-1900 and Reconstruction Era: 1865-1877

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Realism: Civil war 1850-1900 and Reconstruction Era: 1865-1877

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Characteristics
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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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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The Realism movement started in France after the 1848 revolution.

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Near the end of the Realism movement, a school of art called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood immerged.

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1830: Honoré de Balzac begins work on La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy)

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1830: Honoré de Balzac begins work on La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy)

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1856: Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary.

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1856: Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary.

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1861: The emancipation of the serfs in Russia.

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1861: The emancipation of the serfs in Russia.

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Irving was the last of 11 children, eight of whom lived into adulthood.

Source: https://hudsonvalley.org/article/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-washington-irving/

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He was named after George Washington.

Source: https://hudsonvalley.org/article/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-washington-irving/

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The last fact is the following:

In 1798, yellow fever had reached epidemic proportions in New York with over 800 deaths.

Source: https://hudsonvalley.org/article/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-washington-irving/

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Alice Walker is blind in one eye.

Source: https://earlybirdbooks.com/fascinating-facts-about-alice-walker

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Learn more about the woman behind influential pieces of literature such as The Color Purple.

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Alice Walker and her husband had the first legal interracial marriage in Mississippi.

Source: https://earlybirdbooks.com/fascinating-facts-about-alice-walker

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The last fact is the following:

Alice Walker helped the world rediscover Zora Neale Hurston.

Source: https://earlybirdbooks.com/fascinating-facts-about-alice-walker

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Period Characteristics are the following:
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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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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The Focus Was Often On Material, Color, Technique And Process.

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The Focus Was Often On Material, Color, Technique And Process.

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The Year Virginia Woolf Marked a Change in Human Nature

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The Year Virginia Woolf Marked a Change in Human Nature

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Henry James publishes The Figure in the Carpet

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Henry James publishes The Figure in the Carpet

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The American Dream of the 1920s was characterized by the pursuit of material success, social status, and personal freedom.

Source: https://gradesfixer.com/q/what-was-the-american-dream-in-the-1920s/#:~:text=The%20American%20Dream%20of%20the,their%20social%20class%20or%20background.

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Many people believed that hard work and determination would lead to prosperity and happiness, regardless of their social class or background.

Source: https://gradesfixer.com/q/what-was-the-american-dream-in-the-1920s/#:~:text=The%20American%20Dream%20of%20the,their%20social%20class%20or%20background.

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The American dream was a trajectory to a promising future, a model for the United States and for the whole world.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-transformation-of-the-american-dream.html#:~:text=The%20American%20dream%20was%20a,reviews%20and%20high%2Dminded%20articles.

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In the 1930s and '40s, the term appeared occasionally in advertisements for intellectual products: plays, books and church sermons, book reviews and high-minded articles.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-transformation-of-the-american-dream.html#:~:text=The%20American%20dream%20was%20a,reviews%20and%20high%2Dminded%20articles.

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The American Dream of the 1950s was about materialism, the roles of men and women, having a happy family, and being sophisticated.

Source: https://express.adobe.com/page/l5MV4/

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In addition, The American dream of the 1950s centered on nuclear families living in modern, suburban homes.

Source: https://www.smokyhillmuseum.org/exhibits/online_exhibits_folder/1950s-an-american-dream.html#:~:text=The%20American%20dream%20of%20the,color%20to%20target%20consumer%20behaviors.

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s" 1920–1940: "The New Negro Movement" 1919-1925 Prohibition 1920-1933. 

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s" 1920–1940: "The New Negro Movement" 1919-1925 Prohibition 1920-1933. 

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Period Characteristics are the following:

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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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

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The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential movement in African American literary history.

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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship.

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The Weary Blues. Langston Hughes, 1926. 

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The Weary Blues. Langston Hughes, 1926. 

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The dream was to create a completely equal America, where African-Americans and Caucasian can live in peace and cooperation to improve and better the great.

Source: https://transformationoftheamericandream.weebly.com/1960s.html

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In addition to equality, the dream was also to live a peaceful life.

Source: https://prezi.com/xdiv7xjqcz4a/the-american-dream-in-the-1970s/#:~:text=The%20American%20Dream%20in%20the%201970s%20was%20to%20live%20a,what%20was%20essential%20to%20live.