Timeline Tuesday by Giselle Kamuyu

Beginning of American History

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as we know it

Native Americans: Authors and Works

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PERIOD NAME: Fact #1

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Native Americans: Fact #2

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Most Native American lands today are held in trust by the U.S government as reservations, which serve as permanent tribal homelands where Native nations can exercise sovereignty and support their communities through land-based activities.

2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)

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PERIOD NAME: Period Characteristics

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PERIOD NAME: Authors and Works

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Native Americans: Fact #1

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Native Americans were also called Paleo-Indians. They used Clovis points and fluted stone tools to hunt massive Ice Age animals like mammoths, they are some of the earliest evidence of human activity in North America.

PERIOD NAME: Fact #2

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Direct Note

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Present Day

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as we know it

2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

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1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

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3.2 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.

2.2 Native Americans: Period Characteristics

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3.2 Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Authors and Works

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Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #1

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In 1647 the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted the "Old Deluder Satan Act". requiring towns with 50% or more families to hire a schoolteacher, and towns with 100% or more families to support a grammar school, they were aiming for widespread literacy so that everyone could read the Bible and resist ignorance.

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #2

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This painting is an idealized vision of the “first Thanksgiving” between Native Americans and Pilgrims, while the second is a look at one of the punishments inflicted by the Puritans upon those who broke their rules.

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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1692: Salem Witch Trials

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4.2 Revolutionary War: 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

4.2 Revolutionary War: Authors 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

4.2 Revolutionary War: Fact #1

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After Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, Spain dominated the race to establish colonies in the Americas, while English efforts, such as the “lost colony” of Roanoke, met with failure.

4.2 Revolutionary War: Fact #2

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From this article I learned that now, most famous as a traitor to the American cause, General Benedict Arnold began the Revolutionary War as one of its earliest heroes, helping lead rebel forces in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

1607

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Early Settlement Jamestown

1775-1783

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Revolutionary War

6.2 Transcendentalism: Period Characteristics

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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 MovementsRalph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

6.2 Transcendentalism: Authors and Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

5.2 Revolutionary War: Period Characteristics

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5.2 Revolutionary War: Fact #1

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A fact I learned about the Enlightenment is that it questioned traditional gender roles. Enlightenment thinkers questioned the prevailing notion of women’s inferiority and advocated for gender equality. Mary Wollstonecraft, in her influential work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” argued for women’s education and empowerment.

6.2 Transcendentalism: Fact #1

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"Nature," an essay by Emerson, is considered one of the foundational texts of Transcendentalism. I found this pretty interesting because I have an essay that I'm writing about this.

5.2 Revolutionary War: Fact #2

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The Age of Reason was fraught with attacks on basic Christian beliefs and the rejection of God too. The irony of the period is that though man sought and believed himself to be enlightened, he missed the basic truths that would have been clear to him had he not hardened his heart in denunciation of God.

6.2 Transcendentalism: Fact #2

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Apart from the Transcendentalists, there emerged during this period great imaginative writers—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman—whose novels and poetry left a permanent imprint on American literature.

1840-1860

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Transcendentalism

7.2 A Look Ahead: Present Day Fact #1

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Rihanna took a stand in 2023 by refusing to perform at the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show until the NFL made progress addressing racial inequality and player protests. She later used her Fenty brand to fund education, climate change efforts, and racial justice initiatives.

7.2 A Look Ahead: Present Day Fact #2

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Kehlani an R&B singer has been publicly taking a stand by speaking out for Palestine. She has used her music and her social media platforms to raise awareness of those who are suffering in Palestine.

10.2 Romanticism: 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)Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

10.2 Romanticism: Authors and Works

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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

10.2 Romanticism: Fact #1

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I learned that a good outcome from the Industrial Revolution is that it was the engine behind various advances in medicine and labor saving inventions.

10.2 Romanticism: Fact #2

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I learned that Romanticism developed as a reaction against the growth of industrialization and the rigid social and political systems. This made Romantic writers want to focus more on nature and individual emotion.

1800-1860

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The War of 1812

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1812-1815

California Gold Rush

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1848

11.2 The Salem Witch Trials: Fact #1

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What I learned about Nathaniel Hawthorne from this article is that after losing his position at the Salem Custom House due to a change in political leadership, he was very mad, produced The Scarlet Letter in just a few months, and then it was published in 1850, which then brought him significant fame.

11.2 The Salem Witch Trails : Fact #2

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I learned that during the American Renaissance, a group of New English writers dominated the literary scene and they're actually the ones who crafted and refined American literature by adapting European storytelling techniques to many different stories that are rooted in American history.

13.2 McCarthyism : Fact #1

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In 1950, McCarthy surged into national prominence by claiming that he possessed a list of 205 Communists working within the U.S State Department. This put him in a national spotlight even though he never produced the list to the public.

13.2 McCarthyism : Fact #2

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In the early 1950's, McCarthyism started to peak and decline at the same time during the 36-day telivised Army-McCarthy's hearings.

15.2 Poet Study Part 1 : Fact #1

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I learned that Maya Angelou wasn't just a poet, she also wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia and later made her directorial debut with Down in the Delta, so she has a history of being behind the camera too.

15.2 Poet Study Part 2 : Fact #2

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Maya Angelou was the first African American and first female streetcar conductor in San Fransisco when she was just 17 years old.

15.2 Poet Study Part 1: Fact #3

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Maya Angelou wrote seven autobiographies and her most famous one is called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, written in 1969.

16.2 Poet Study Part 2 : Fact #1

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Anne Bradstreet never attended school, her father is the one who educated her himself.

16.2 Poet Study Part 2: Fact #2

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In between the years 1633 and 1652 she had eight children and was still continuously writing her poems.

16.2 Poet Study Part 2: Fact #3

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Anne Bradstreet's poetry collection called The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America was published in London and was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. It was on par with works by Shakespeare and Milton.

17.2 Poet Study Part 3 : Fact #1

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At a young age he began to experiment with a new style of poetry and by 1855 he had enough poems in his new style for a thin volume.

15.2 Poet Study Part 2: Fact #2

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In 1865 he became a clerk in the Department of the Interior, he was promoted in May but dismissed in June because the secretary thought that his poem The Leaves of Grass was indecent.

17.2 Poet Study Part 2: Fact #3

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While Walt Whitman's poetry failed to garner popular attention from his American readership during his lifetime, over 1,000 people came to view his funeral.