American Literature Timeline by Zariah Young https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa Red: Wars. Purple: Texts. Green: Literary/Historical Figure. orange: Movement. en-us 2025-03-28 13:45:43 UTC 2025-03-28 17:22:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Trickster Tales 1600 zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386767959 Oral tradition stories with cunning characters.

]]> 2025-03-28 13:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386767959 Puritanism zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386772301 Religous- based writing focused on morality and God.

]]> 2025-03-28 13:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386772301 Anne Bradstreet zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386782772 First American female poet.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386782772 Revolutionary war zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386785019 America's fight for independence. Tied to the declaration of independence, 1776.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386785019 Declaration of independence zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386787221 Thomas Jefferson's document asserting freedom.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386787221 Constitution zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386789143 Framework for U.S. government.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386789143 Bill of Rights zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386790974 First 10 amendments protecting individual liberties.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386790974 Transcendentalism zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386794014 Focused on nature, self-reliance, and intuition.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386794014 Ralph Waldo Emerson zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386795160 Led self-reliance movement

]]> 2025-03-28 14:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386795160 Young Goodman Brown zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386797152 Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story about faith and sin.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386797152 Romanticism zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386798842 Emphasized emotion, nature, and individualism

]]> 2025-03-28 14:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386798842 Civil War zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386800029 Conflict over slavery, leading to Reconstruction.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386800029 Reconstruction zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386801834 Post-Civil War struggle for Black rights and literature.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386801834 I Hear America Singing zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386803958 Walt Whitman's poem celebrating American workers.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386803958 Realism 1860s-1910s zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386816373 Showed life as it really was, reacting to war and industrialization.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386816373 Mark Twain zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386818000 Used satire to depict American society.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386818000 Story of an Hour zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386819848 Kate Chopin's short story on women's freedom.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386819848 Modernism 1910s-1940s zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386822448

Experimented with form and addressed social issues.

]]> 2025-03-28 14:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386822448 World War 1 zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386824360 Brought new modernist literature reflecting disillusionment

]]> 2025-03-28 14:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386824360 Harlem Renaissance zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386865813 Flourishing Black literature, music, and art.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386865813 I Too zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386868338 Langston Hughes poem on racial identity.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386868338 World War 2 zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386868983 Led to literature about war trauma and human rights.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386868983 Cold War zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386871129 Fueled themes of paranoia, power, and political unrest.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386871129 Civil Rights Movement zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386873290 Literature reflected racial justice and equality struggles.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386873290 Feminism Movement zariahyoung https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386876091 Women's rights, literature advocating for equality.

]]> 2025-03-28 15:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zariahyoung/f4m502arpvh8ymqa/wish/3386876091