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The Native Americans had a lot of respect for their overall nature. This includes trees, animals and plants.

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The Native Americans have a very unique writing style. Their writing includes a lot of nature and is very creative and almost random. For example in a short story I read written by Native Americans it had A World on a turtle's back and a lady jumping from the sky.

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The Native Americans were very diverse, they had over 550 different tribes with their own culture and languages.

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Many Native Americans learned to farm and hunt early on, this helped a lot with their food that keeps on multiplying

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Puritanism and First "Americans" colonies 1600-1800

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Puritanism and First "Americans" colonies 1600-1800

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Puritans built faith-centered communities focusing on hard work.

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Early settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown 1507

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Early settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown 1507

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

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

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The Puritans literature focused on religion, important values and a lot of sermons and poems about daily life.

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As Max Weber saw Puritans helped people handle the mixed feelings and demands about Christianity in a modern world.

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The Puritans came from the Church of England. They wanted to remove ceremonies and practices that were not rooted in the Bible.

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"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

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America's Founding Fathers, like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were heavily influenced by Rationalist ideas. They believed in using reasoning, science, and logic to solve problems. This ended up shaping the creating of the US Constitution and the country's government.

Works Cited

https://www.britannica.com/topic/rationalism

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During this time Benjamin Franklin had his extremely famous kite. This experiment proved that lightning was a form of electricity. This was a perfect example of the Rationalist belief in using science and reason to understand the world.

Works Cited:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Franklin

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Transcendentalism is a philosophy that promotes spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking.

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Transcendentalism focuses on the individual and self reliance, encouraging people to trust their inner self.

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Transcendentalism believes in the spiritual connection between humans and nature, seeing nature as a path to understanding deeper truths about life and the universe.

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On May 25 202, Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin killed a Black man named George Floyd after kneeling on his neck for nearly 8 minutes and 46 seconds. The incident sparked a months-long wave of nationwide protests against police brutality and related injustices against Black Americans.

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This situation actually went on for a couple of months including protests, people taking actions into their own hands, and even violence.

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Jonathan Isaac, an NBA player, stood during the Black Lives Matter moment of silence while others kneeled. He explained that his decision was based on his Christian faith, believing in the gospel. He also refused to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt.

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Romanticism was a movement that valued emotion, nature, and individualism over reason and tradition.

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The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Britain, mainly over trade restrictions and British support for Native American attacks on American settlers.

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The California Gold Rush of 1848 was a period when thousands of people rushed to California hoping to find gold and get rich quickly.

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Romanticism focused on individual feelings, imagination, and nature over logic and reason.

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Romantic writers often celebrated heroes, beauty, and the mysteries of the natural world.

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Herman Melville dedicated his iconic novel Moby Dick to Hawthorne, highlighting their brief but impactful friendship they had.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne

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Hawthorne's first novel, Fanshawe, was self published in 1828. He later regretted it and tried to destroy all of the copies.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.-died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire) is one of the greatest fiction writers of 19th-century American literature. A master of the allegorical and symbolic tale, he remains best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).

Ancestry and early years

Hawthorne's ancestors had lived in Salem, Massachusetts, since the 17th century. His earliest American ancestor was William Hathorne, a magistrate who was a staunch defender of Puritan orthodoxy, with its zealous advocacy of a "pure," unaffected form of religious worship, its rigid adherence to a simple, almost severe, mode of life, and its conviction of the "natural depravity" of "fallen" humankind. (Hawthorne added a w to his surname when he began to write.) Among Hathorne's actions as magistrate was sentencing a Quaker woman to public whipping.

Hawthorne was later to wonder whether the decline of his family's prosperity and prominence during the 18th century, while other Salem families were growing wealthy from the lucrative shipping trade, might not be a retribution for this act and for the role of William Hathorne's son John as one of three judges in the Salem witchcraft trials that began in 1692.

When Nathaniel's father-a ship's captain-died during one of his voyages, he left his young widow without means to care for her two girls and Nathaniel, who was four years old. She moved in with her affluent brothers, the Mannings. Hawthorne grew up in their house in Salem and, for extensive periods during his teens, in Raymond, Maine, on the shores of Sebago Lake.

He returned to Salem in 1825 after four years at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. Hawthorne did not distinguish himself as a young man. Instead, he spent nearly a dozen years reading and trying to master the art of writing fiction.

First works and the Transcendentalists

In college Hawthorne had excelled only in composition and had decided to become a writer. Upon graduation, he wrote Fanshawe, a novel that he published at his own expense-and then tried to destroy all copies after deciding it was unworthy of him.

Hawthorne, however, soon found his own voice, style, and subjects, and within five years of his graduation he had published "The Hollow of the Three Hills" and "An Old Woman's Tale", both notable short stories. By 1832, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" and "Roger Malvin's Burial," considered two of his greatest tales, had been published. "Young Goodman Brown," a gripping tale of witchcraft, appeared in 1835.

His increasing success in placing his stories brought him a little fame. Unwilling to depend any longer on his uncles' generosity, he turned to a job in the Boston Custom House, which he held from 1839 to 1840, and for six months in 1841 he was a resident at the agricultural cooperative Brook Farm, a utopian experiment in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Even when the first book to be published under his name, Twice-Told Tales, was released in 1837, he gained gratifying recognition but no dependable income.

By 1842, however, Hawthorne's writing had brought him a sufficient income to allow him to marry Sophia Peabody. The couple rented a house called the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, and they began a happy three-year period that Hawthorne would later record in his essay "The Old Manse."

The presence in Concord of some of the leading social thinkers and philosophers of his day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott, made the village the center of the philosophy of Transcendentalism, which encouraged individuals to transcend the materialistic world of experience and facts and become conscious of the pervading spirit of the universe and the potentialities for human freedom. Hawthorne welcomed the companionship of his Transcendentalist neighbors, but he had little to say to them. Artists and intellectuals never inspired his full confidence, but he thoroughly enjoyed the visit of his old college friend and classmate Franklin Pierce, later to become president of the United States.

At the Old Manse, Hawthorne continued to write stories, with the same result as before: literary success, monetary failure. His new short-story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, appeared in 1846.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) is one of the greatest fiction writers of 19th-century America. A novelist and short-story writer, he was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. Hawthorne is best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).

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The Salem Witch Hunts was a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials

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During McCarthyism in the 1950s, over 300 actors, writers, and directors were blacklisted in Hollywood for being suspected communists

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1. Nikki Giovanni was a Grammy finalist in 2004

2. She wrote 11 illustrated children’s books

3. Giovanni taught at Virginia Tech for 35 years and held the title of University Distinguished Professor.

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikki-giovanni

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1. Stephen Crane is best known for his novels Maggie

2. He worked as a journalist and war correspondent, drawing on these experiences to write powerful stories like The Open Boat.

3. Crane died young at 28 in 1900, after a short yet impactfull literature career.

Source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Crane

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1. The "Dr." in Dr. Seuss was a joke, he actually never finished his doctorate.

2. His first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected nearly 30 times before it got published.

3. The famous line “I meant what I said” in Horton Hatches the Egg shows loyalty and was part of his shift to writing for kids.

Source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss/The-Cat-in-the-Hat-How-the-Grinch-Stole-Christmas-and-other-classics

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Realism was a movement that showed life as it truly was, focusing on everyday people and real-world events.

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Realism rejected romanticized and exaggerated stories, instead portraying ordinary people and real-life struggles.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/realism-political-and-social-science

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Many realist writers, like Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, used their works to criticize social issues such as poverty and injustice.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/realism-political-and-social-science

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Interesting facts about Irving:

Passed the bar exam in late 1806

He was the youngest of 11 siblings.

He escaped the need to go to college

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1. She described both of her parents as storytellers

2. While growing up she blinded one eye and so her mom gave her a typewriter to write stories instead of doing chores.

3. Her grandfather eventually recovered from alcoholism and changed his life for the better and this inspired Walker to write a book.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Walker

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It was a big breakthrough in the art world, especially after world war 1 ending.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art

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The literature world looked for a lot of inspiration to a world that was very dry and sad to them. Through literature and art a lot of beauty came. Not just through the works but also in the hearts of the people.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art

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Many people believed they could become rich and successful through hard work but a big factor according to them was luck.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roaring-Twenties

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New inventions like cars and radios made life easier and helped people dream bigger.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roaring-Twenties

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The Great Depression shattered many Americans’ belief in the American Dream, as unemployment soared to nearly 25% and widespread poverty made economic stability seem impossible

https://www.steinbeckintheschools.com/historical-context/1930-1940?utm

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In the 1940s, many Americans saw hard work and family life as central to the American Dream, especially as soldiers returned home, married, and started families, leading to the Baby boom.

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In the 1950s, it was all about owning the newest items.

https://express.adobe.com/page/l5MV4/?utm

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The US economy soared in this time period.

https://express.adobe.com/page/l5MV4/?utm

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A cultural movement where Black writers, musicians, and artists thrived in Harlem, New York.

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Harlem was considered the cultural capital of Black America.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/harlem-renaissance

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Clubs like the Cotton Club featured Black musicians playing for white audiences, helping to spread Black culture.

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/jazz-age

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During the 1960s, the American Dream shifted from owning a home to seeking equality and personal freedom, especially during the Civil Rights Movement.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/

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In the 1970s, rising inflation and unemployment caused many families to struggle financially, changing the dream from growing wealth to simply keeping stability and staying afloat.

https://www.history.com/topics/1970s/1970s

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In the 1980s the American Dream became all about wealth, success, and status. Owning a big house, fancy car, and climbing the business ladder.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reagan-american-dream/

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The phrase “Greed is good” became popular during this time, showing how money and power were seen as success.

https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/1980s

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In the 1990-2000s tech founders and entrepreneurs became overnight millionaires, making the American Dream seem possible again.

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

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In 2008 there was a financial crisis that led to big problems, job losses, and wiped-out savings. Making people wonder if the American dream is still possible.

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

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Writers began writing stories about storytelling itself, often making readers question what is real and what is fiction.

https://www.britannica.com/art/literary-criticism

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Although fighting stopped in 1953 with an agreement, no peace treaty was ever signed. This means North and South Korea are technically still at war today.

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

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This poem reflects on how life is short and filled with both beauty and pain. Despite the world's darkness, the speaker tries to give the reader hope and a future. It ends with the idea that even in a broken world we can help and try to make it beautiful.

https://theworld.org/stories/2016/12/30/official-poem-2016

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Looking back at this amazing timeline, connecting literature to history helped me understand how people felt in different times and how it affected their lives. Stories, poems and pictures made the events more real and personal. It showed me that even though the world changes so often, human emotions stay the same and the desire to feel loved and cared for stays the same.