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Native Americans date - [2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.1607—Early settlement at Jamestown] 

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Native Americans date - [2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.1607—Early settlement at Jamestown] 

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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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Native Americans: Native Americans cultivated many of the world's most important crops.

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Native Americans: Native Americans cultivated many of the world's most important crops.

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Native American: Native Americans were forcibly displaced by the Indian Relocation Act in 1830.

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Native American: Native Americans were forcibly displaced by the Indian Relocation Act in 1830.

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Direction Notes: Be sure to add any special events according to their date as needed.

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Direction Notes: Be sure to add any special events according to their date as needed.

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800 1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown1692: Salem Witch Trials 1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"    

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800 1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown1692: Salem Witch Trials 1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"    

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Period characteristics:
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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 Salem Witch Trials: More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft

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 Salem Witch Trials: More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/#:~:text=The%20Salem%20witch%20trials%20occurred,accused%20and%20compensated%20their%20families.

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 Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": He pastored his first church when he was 18 years old.

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 Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": He pastored his first church when he was 18 years old.

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https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-jonathan-edwards/

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment", Date- 1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment", Date- 1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown1775-1783 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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During the enlightenment, they thought that  human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to improve the lives of humankind.

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During the enlightenment, they thought that  human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to improve the lives of humankind.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Enlightenment-European-history#:~:text=It%20was%20thought%20during%20the,to%20testing%20and%20rational%20analysis.

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The Enlightenment led many people to think about their government and to consider ways in which it should be reformed.

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The Enlightenment led many people to think about their government and to consider ways in which it should be reformed.

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https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Causes-and-Effects#:~:text=The%20Enlightenment%20led%20many%20people,ruled%20his%20subjects%20without%20question.

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" Date- 1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment" Date- 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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Patrick Henry was an elected representative to this congress for the colony of Virginia.

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Patrick Henry was an elected representative to this congress for the colony of Virginia.

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https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/patrick-henry-facts

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and second woman (after Anne Bradstreet) to publish a book of poems.

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and second woman (after Anne Bradstreet) to publish a book of poems.

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https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley

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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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Transcendentalists believed people and nature were filled with goodness.

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Transcendentalists believed people and nature were filled with goodness.

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Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven.

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Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven.

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https://kids.kiddle.co/Transcendentalism

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Uniqlo had 190 stores in Korea in August 2019, which dropped to 126 in 2022. The people started to boycott when Japan announced the removal of South Korea from its whitelist of most trusted trading partners.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/03/25/business/economy/No-Japan-Uniqlo-boycott/20230325070011075.html

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Protests in Canada over LGBTQ content in school textbooks

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Protests in Canada over LGBTQ content in school textbooks

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The parents in the school claimed (stood out) that there is LGBTQ+ indoctrination of children, causing a controversial debate over what should be taught to children.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/video/protests-in-canada-over-lgbtq-content-in-school-textbooks-2439984-2023-09-24

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Romanticism and Industrialization Date - 1800-1860 The War of 1812 1812-1815 California Gold Rush(1848–1855)

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Romanticism and Industrialization Date - 1800-1860 The War of 1812 1812-1815 California 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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El Tres de Mayo 1808 (May 3) by Francisco Goya is considered one of the largest defining paintings of the era in Romanticism

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El Tres de Mayo 1808 (May 3) by Francisco Goya is considered one of the largest defining paintings of the era in Romanticism

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https://1st-art-gallery.medium.com/12-interesting-facts-about-romanticism-art-f6e8d4231d07

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The gold rush was one of the largest migrations in American history

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The gold rush was one of the largest migrations in American history

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https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/8-weird-but-true-facts-about-the-gold-rush/

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Hawthorne and his wife etched poems into the windows of their first home.

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Hawthorne and his wife etched poems into the windows of their first home.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/nathaniel-hawthorne-facts

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 Many Puritans migrated from England to the American colonies

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 Many Puritans migrated from England to the American colonies

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https://www.havefunwithhistory.com/facts-about-puritans/

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Joseph McCarthy could destroy political careers on a whim during 1950s.

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Joseph McCarthy could destroy political careers on a whim during 1950s.

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https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3412

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Government employees lost their jobs due to McCarthyism.

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Government employees lost their jobs due to McCarthyism.

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https://owlcation.com/humanities/Facts-About-McCarthyism

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mccarthy-red-scare

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William Carlos Williams: As a child, he spoke both Spanish and English at home.

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William Carlos Williams: As a child, he spoke both Spanish and English at home.

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https://renaissance.stonybrookmedicine.edu/surgery/blog/january-morning-by-physician-poet-william-carlos-williams-for-january-first-2019

https://eerdlings.com/2022/09/19/interesting-facts-about-william-carlos-williams/

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William Carlos Williams: In addition to poetry, Williams also wrote plays, essays, and short stories.

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William Carlos Williams: In addition to poetry, Williams also wrote plays, essays, and short stories.

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https://eerdlings.com/2022/09/19/interesting-facts-about-william-carlos-williams/

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William Carlos Williams: Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Paterson’ in 1949.

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William Carlos Williams: Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Paterson’ in 1949.

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https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/in-praise-of-a-small-press-with-big-impact

https://eerdlings.com/2022/09/19/interesting-facts-about-william-carlos-williams/

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Stephen Crane: Crane is thought to be the first American naturalistic writer.

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Stephen Crane: Crane is thought to be the first American naturalistic writer.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-stephen-crane/

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Stephen Crane: Crane is on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Stephen Crane: Crane is on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-stephen-crane/

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Stephen Crane: Crane’s boat to Cuba sank which prompted the short story The Open Boat. The story is based on Crane’s experience in a lifeboat with the captain and the cook.

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Stephen Crane: Crane’s boat to Cuba sank which prompted the short story The Open Boat. The story is based on Crane’s experience in a lifeboat with the captain and the cook.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-stephen-crane/

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Louisa May Alcott: She pretended to be her own servant to trick her fans.

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Louisa May Alcott: She pretended to be her own servant to trick her fans.

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https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/10-little-facts-about-louisa-may-alcott

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Louisa May Alcott: She suffered from mercury poisoning.

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Louisa May Alcott: She suffered from mercury poisoning.

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https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/10-little-facts-about-louisa-may-alcott

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Louisa May Alcott: Alcott never had children, but she cared for her niece.

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Louisa May Alcott: Alcott never had children, but she cared for her niece.

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https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/10-little-facts-about-louisa-may-alcott

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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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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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More than 3 million men fought in the civil war.

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More than 3 million men fought in the civil war.

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https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-civil-war/civil-war-facts

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The Reconstruction Acts mandated the registration of eligible voters, including African Americans, and set the stage for the reorganization of Southern governments.

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The Reconstruction Acts mandated the registration of eligible voters, including African Americans, and set the stage for the reorganization of Southern governments.

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https://www.havefunwithhistory.com/facts-about-the-reconstruction-era/

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Irving was the first person to refer to New York as ‘Gotham City’. 

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Irving was the first person to refer to New York as ‘Gotham City’. 

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https://interestingliterature.com/2013/03/nine-interesting-facts-about-washington-irving/#

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Irving helped to create the modern idea of Christmas. 

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Irving helped to create the modern idea of Christmas. 

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https://interestingliterature.com/2013/03/nine-interesting-facts-about-washington-irving/#

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Bret Harte: Even though he sent money to his wife and kids, not once did he come visit, or have them visit him, during his 24 years on the job.

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Bret Harte: Even though he sent money to his wife and kids, not once did he come visit, or have them visit him, during his 24 years on the job.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-bret-harte/

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Bret Harte: Besides short stories, he also wrote plays, reviews, editorials, lectures, and poetry.

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Bret Harte: Besides short stories, he also wrote plays, reviews, editorials, lectures, and poetry.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-bret-harte/

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Bret Harte: When he was 11 years old, Mr. Harte published a humorous poem called “Autumn Musings”.

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Bret Harte: When he was 11 years old, Mr. Harte published a humorous poem called “Autumn Musings”.

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https://manoflabook.com/wp/fun-facts-friday-bret-harte/

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Alice Walker: Her was blinded in one eye.

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Alice Walker: Her was blinded in one eye.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/635875/alice-walker-facts

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Alice Walker: Her first published essay won $300.

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Alice Walker: Her first published essay won $300.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/635875/alice-walker-facts

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Alice Walker’s parents supported their daughter's writing.

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Alice Walker’s parents supported their daughter's writing.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/635875/alice-walker-facts

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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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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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Millions of Germans were imprisoned and killed because they didn’t fit the image of the ‘perfect’ German

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Millions of Germans were imprisoned and killed because they didn’t fit the image of the ‘perfect’ German

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https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/world-war-two/

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There was a  wave of artists who began to incorporate elements of nostalgia into their works, likely as a reaction to the challenges they were facing.

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There was a  wave of artists who began to incorporate elements of nostalgia into their works, likely as a reaction to the challenges they were facing.

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https://blog.cummermuseum.org/top-10-fact-about-the-great-depression/

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American dream in the 20s:  For most people the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. Many women began to cut their hair short, because it was the new look. 

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American dream in the 20s:  For most people the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. Many women began to cut their hair short, because it was the new look. 

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https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1920s-4F6607D9BE06003D

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American dreams in 20s: Some had to work hard to achieve the “American Dream” while others were born into it. 

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American dreams in 20s: Some had to work hard to achieve the “American Dream” while others were born into it. 

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https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1920s-4F6607D9BE06003D

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During the mid-1930s, a series of droughts coupled with poor agricultural methods led to years of soil erosion and dust storms known as the Dust Bowl, a catastrophe that destroyed farms throughout the Southern Great Plains (Shafer, Low).

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During the mid-1930s, a series of droughts coupled with poor agricultural methods led to years of soil erosion and dust storms known as the Dust Bowl, a catastrophe that destroyed farms throughout the Southern Great Plains (Shafer, Low).

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https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1930s-59C99475E2F23492#:~:text=In%20the%201930's%20the%20American%20Dream%20was%20primarily%20focused%20on,along%20with%20many%20other%20factors.

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The GI Bill of Rights, also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed into law by President Roosevelt on June 22, 1944.

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The GI Bill of Rights, also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed into law by President Roosevelt on June 22, 1944.

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https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/the-people-vs-america/1940s.html

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Housing construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950.Housing construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950.

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Housing construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950.Housing construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950.

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https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/the-people-vs-america/1940s.html

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The rise of the American Dream

& the forces that made America

"This is an explicit policy of the Roosevelt administration, to get people buying things again"

A push to make the American Dream mainstream

"The growth that we used to get by conquering other nations - enslaving their people and extracting their minerals - now we'd be able to get that growth internally through consumption.

In 1945, the US emerged from World War II with optimism as the new world power.

Seventeen million new jobs, a hike in industrial productivity and doubling of corporate profits, would mean that the American Dream was going mainstream.

And it would be driven by a new ideology - consumption.

"The premise of the post-war industrial America is that the growth that we used to get by conquering other nations - enslaving their people and extracting their minerals - now we'd be able to get that growth internally through consumption. So we build the suburbs because if everyone's living in their own house, everyone's going to need their own dishwasher, their own washing machine, their own lawnmower, their own car, their own thing."

"This is an explicit policy of the Roosevelt administration - to get people buying things again. The government started guaranteeing home mortgages and as soon as people had money available they started buying homes in droves."

"The easiest place to trace all this back to are some of the very well-meaning reforms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR came up with the idea that we're gonna make sure everybody has a job, a mortgage and a home and they kind of developed an idea for a society where men would be kept apart from one another, in these little homes in suburban tracked areas, like Levittown."

Levittown: building the suburban dream

A house in Levittown, Pennsylvania

"The so-called middle class was being developed, but there was no such thing for black people"

Levittown refers to seven planned communities created by the real estate developer William Levitt and his father's company Levitt & Sons.

These prototypical American suburbs were built after World War II for returning veterans and their families.

Those who had once rented apartments in central city locations could now afford to own a modest home - the first Levittown house cost just $6,900.

In order to speed up production and keep costs low, the homes were constructed with prefabricated parts and assembly line methods, and were almost identical.

Where was Levittown built?

The first Levittown was built in Long Island in New York between 1947 and 1951, and was followed by suburban developments in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and Maryland.

Levitt built 17,447 houses over the first four years, completing an average of 12 houses per day.

Levitt would only sell houses to white buyers, and even excluded African Americans from his communities after housing segregation had been ruled unconstitutional by the courts in 1948, by rejecting potential buyers who were African American.

A Levittown neighbourhood

"You have troops coming back at the end of World War II in 1945 who have to be integrated into the economy and there are social programmes including the GI bill, by which American workers and a professional class can enjoy a standard of living that is probably unequalled anywhere else in the industrialised world."

"This is affirmative action for whites. This GI Bill allows returning servicemen to purchase homes in the suburbs, to get education. So this policy essentially facilitates that dream by making the suburbs possible. The white picket fence, crabgrass, two kids, a dog and a playground, kind of life that we see as the kind of aesthetic of the American dream."

Most Levittown homes were purchased by returning veterans and financed using Veterans Administration (VA) loans available under the G.I. Bill.

The GI Bill of Rights, also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed into law by President Roosevelt on June 22, 1944.

The act was designed to help the nation to reabsorb the millions of returning World War II veterans, at a time when housing was in short supply.

The bill provided veterans with low-interest mortgages and small business loans, grants for school and college tuition, job training, hiring privileges, and unemployment payments.

Housing construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950.

African American veterans had difficulty accessing many of the benefits of the G.I. Bill, such as the housing provisions. For example, of the G.I. Bill's first 67,000 mortgages, fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites.

"At the end of World War II, you find that black people were in the same state as we were in since 1865. The so-called middle class was being developed, but there was no such thing for black people."

Introducing the modern credit cards

While the concept of lending money via a card dates back to the 1800s, the first general-purpose credit card in the US was initiated by Bank of America in 1958. The card was originally called BankAmericard, and renamed Visa in 1976-77.

Americans signed up for more than 100 million credit cards over the next decade.

Today, three out of four American adults own at least one credit card, with the average US household carrying $15,310 in credit card debt.

The Taft-Hartley Act restricted union members' activities and began the collapse of American labour unions. Their decline followed a Cold War logic which pitted them against the establishment.

"The Cold War really crystallised anti-communism, and unions were seen as communistic."

circa 1955: An American housewife bastes the Thanksgiving turkey while her two sons look on. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

The American Dream was becoming a reality for growing numbers of US citizens, primarily those that weren't black ... or women.

"It was not an inclusive dream. The women gained, but in a particular way, through a man's income. The 50s were the period of really strong domesticity in this country, in which married women's labour force participation was quite low. So women were having lots of kids, they were marrying early, they were more likely to be at home in those suburbs."

As the transformative 1950s drew to a close, the new decade would give voice to those with a different vision of America ... and a different version of the American Dream.

The birth of the American Dream

& the forces that made America

An era of struggle & democratisation

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The rise of the American Dream & the forces that made America "This is an explicit policy of the Roosevelt administration, to get people buying things again" A push to make the American Dream mainstream "The growth that we used to get by conquering other nations - enslaving their people and extracting their minerals - now we'd be able to get that growth internally through consumption.

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The first general-purpose credit card in the US was initiated by Bank of America in 1958

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The first general-purpose credit card in the US was initiated by Bank of America in 1958

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https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/the-people-vs-america/1940s.html

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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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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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In 1925 Alain L. Locke, a philosophy professor at Howard University and a leading promoter of black writers and artists, published an anthology The New Negro, An Interpretation. 

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In 1925 Alain L. Locke, a philosophy professor at Howard University and a leading promoter of black writers and artists, published an anthology The New Negro, An Interpretation. 

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It Wasn’t Illegal to Consume Alcohol during the period of Prohibition. 

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It Wasn’t Illegal to Consume Alcohol during the period of Prohibition. 

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https://www.saintlawrencespirits.com/spiritoftheriverblog/repeal-prohibition-day

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Peace, equality, and freedom made Generation X, or the beginning of baby boomers into one of the fiercest generation to stand up together as one to speak up to things they believed in.

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Peace, equality, and freedom made Generation X, or the beginning of baby boomers into one of the fiercest generation to stand up together as one to speak up to things they believed in.

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https://www.cram.com/essay/The-Influence-Of-The-American-Dream-In/P3TRXC9FNMXYQ#google_vignette

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Women were fighting for their rights in the 1970s of American dream. 

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Women were fighting for their rights in the 1970s of American dream. 

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https://prezi.com/xdiv7xjqcz4a/the-american-dream-in-the-1970s/

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President Ronald Reagan was punctured in his lung by a bullet and almost died.

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President Ronald Reagan was punctured in his lung by a bullet and almost died.

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https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1980s-PJ9ZFM8K8DT#google_vignette

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John Lennon, who was once a Beatle, was killed by a crazed fan in the carriageway of his apartment in New York City.

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John Lennon, who was once a Beatle, was killed by a crazed fan in the carriageway of his apartment in New York City.

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https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1980s-PJ9ZFM8K8DT

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During the 90s many people lost their jobs due to the recession

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During the 90s many people lost their jobs due to the recession

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https://prezi.com/j-_cilmin6_6/american-dream-of-the-1990s/

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 Tech entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk became symbols of success, embodying the notion that anyone with a great idea and determination could achieve prosperity. (2000s)

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 Tech entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk became symbols of success, embodying the notion that anyone with a great idea and determination could achieve prosperity. (2000s)

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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/american-dreams/408535/

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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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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

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The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII

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The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII

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https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2016/06/14-amazing-yet-little-known-facts-about-the-korean-war

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https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2016/06/14-amazing-yet-little-known-facts-about-the-korean-war

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Hunger game is a story about a selected boy and a girl who fight to the death in the hunger game. At the end, the organizer stopped the game since the players tried to end it by eating the berries. 

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Hunger game is a story about a selected boy and a girl who fight to the death in the hunger game. At the end, the organizer stopped the game since the players tried to end it by eating the berries. 

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https://www.gradesaver.com/the-hunger-games/study-guide/summary

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The padlet assignment was one of my favorite assignments in northstar. I learned various interesting facts throughout the journey and had fun researching those facts. But there were hard times such as finding good interesting facts in the American dream. However, those kinds of trials improved my research skills. I will probably use this method to research things in the internet in the future as well. 

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The padlet assignment was one of my favorite assignments in northstar. I learned various interesting facts throughout the journey and had fun researching those facts. But there were hard times such as finding good interesting facts in the American dream. However, those kinds of trials improved my research skills. I will probably use this method to research things in the internet in the future as well. 