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Native Americans 2200 B.C - 1607

OrianaChong — 2025-08-27 09:27:15 UTC

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.

Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2025-08-27 09:29:03 UTC

#2 They believe that the 4 for is sacred, as they believe in all things they create they will fail for 3, and then succeed at 4.

Link to Image:

https://www.morganparkacademy.org/2020/fifth-grade-native-americans/

Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2025-09-04 04:29:19 UTC

#1 Speaks more than 500 dialogue and language.

Link to image:

https://historicalpix.com/products/native-american-in-headdress-portrait-1920s?srsltid=AfmBOoosQL6Kl38tCCEuvIkiZlX0ETwGV2GQa3MYVrhGqF3F5gMyn5d1

Works and Authors

OrianaChong — 2025-09-04 04:37:04 UTC

Oral Works

-The Earth on Turtle's Back

-Navajo Creation

Historical Events

OrianaChong — 2025-09-04 04:40:05 UTC

~1450 -Iroquois Confederacy, earliest forms of democratic government.

1400s ~ 1500s - Arrival of Europeans.

~1607 - Founding of James Town, the beginning of American Literature.

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies

OrianaChong — 2025-09-05 08:54:01 UTC

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.

Works and Authors

OrianaChong — 2025-09-05 08:55:26 UTC

William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards
-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2025-09-05 08:58:11 UTC

Puritans banned Christmas.

Image Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism

Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2025-09-05 08:59:19 UTC

The Mayflower Compact was America's mini Constitution.

Image Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism

Historical Dates

OrianaChong — 2025-09-05 08:59:52 UTC

1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692: Salem Witch Trials

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

Rationalism

OrianaChong — 2025-09-15 16:47:54 UTC

"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

Chatacteristics:

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

Works and Authors

OrianaChong — 2025-09-15 16:48:27 UTC

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

Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2025-09-15 16:51:13 UTC

Rationalism and the Enlightenment emphasized reason over tradition, which helped inspire modern science and democratic ideals.

Image by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2025-09-15 16:52:12 UTC

The Age of Reason was so influential that many thinkers called it “the light after the dark ages”.

Image by:

https://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html

Historical Dates

OrianaChong — 2025-09-15 16:52:51 UTC

1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Transcendentalism

OrianaChong — 2025-09-26 10:44:12 UTC

"The American Renaissance"

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

Famous Authors and Works

OrianaChong — 2025-09-26 10:44:36 UTC

Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2025-09-26 10:47:33 UTC

Nature was their "Bible". Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau believed that spiritual truths could be found more clearly in nature than in organized religion or books.

Image: https://inca.ac.id/american-transcendentalism/

Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2025-09-26 10:48:50 UTC

Magazines which published essays, poetry, and philosophy from Transcendentalist thinkers became popular.

Image: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-transcendentalism-3530593

Historical Dates

OrianaChong — 2025-09-26 10:49:15 UTC

1840-1860
Transcendentalism

Taking A Stand in Modern Days #1

OrianaChong — 2025-10-02 08:42:33 UTC

Young people are increasing their play in modern activism. An example: Elijah McKenzie-Jackson, who was motivated by climate issues, got involved in organizing climate strikes, and joining movements such as the Extinction Rebellion Youth. Young people are also active in using social media and public protest, in conducting activism.

Image: Courtesy of Nadine Khaouli

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20220803-gen-z-how-young-people-are-changing-activism

Taking A Stand in Modern Days #2

OrianaChong — 2025-10-02 08:45:56 UTC

Farmers in New Delhi are demanding legislation guaranteeing minimum crop prices. Rural communities are often facing policy promises that have not sufficiently addressed their economic vulnerability. Now they are protesting a demanding for what they need.

Image: AP news

Source: https://apnews.com/article/india-farmers-protest-minimum-crop-prices-72f48ace2126ccf933675b76ff83944a

Romanticism - Industrialization

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 06:50:45 UTC

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)

Famous Authors and Works

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 06:51:23 UTC

Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 06:54:00 UTC

Women were told not to play wind instruments because it made your face look unattractive.

Source: https://www.epicreads.com/blog/10-weirdest-facts-about-renaissance-florence/#:~:text=Women%20were%20told%20not%20to,grown%20up%20enough%20for%20marriage.

Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 06:55:52 UTC

Men usually didn't get married until they were 30, before then, they were not considered to be grown up enough for marriage.

Source: https://www.epicreads.com/blog/10-weirdest-facts-about-renaissance-florence/#:~:text=Women%20were%20told%20not%20to,grown%20up%20enough%20for%20marriage.

Historical Dates

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 06:56:53 UTC

1800-1860
The War of 1812
1812-1815
California Gold Rush
January 24, 1848

American Literature Fun Fact #3

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 07:28:52 UTC

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was such a commercial failure when published that it went out of print before his death.

American Literature Fun Fact #4

OrianaChong — 2025-12-12 07:30:11 UTC

Emily Dickinson published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, even though she wrote nearly 1,800.

Salem Witch Trials Fun Fact #1

OrianaChong — 2026-01-09 05:00:13 UTC

On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop became the first person executed during the Salem witch trials, which started a series of execution in which 19 people would be put to death.

Source:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/March-1/salem-witch-hunt-begins

McCarthyism Cold War Fun Fact #2

OrianaChong — 2026-01-09 05:02:56 UTC

On April 22, 1954, the Army–McCarthy hearings began a series of nationally televised hearings where Senator Joseph McCarthy’s aggressive tactics against the U.S. Army were shown to the public, leading to a major decline in his influence and reputation.

Source:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-22/mccarthy-army-hearings-begin

Poet: Walt Whitman Fun Fact

OrianaChong — 2026-01-09 05:17:02 UTC

Fun Fact #1

Walt Whitman couldn’t find a publisher for his new poems, so he sold his own house to fund and print the very first edition of Leaves of Grass, with no author’s name on the cover.

Fun Fact #2

Walt Whitman volunteered as a civil war nurse in hospitals for soldiers from both sides. He also used his own money to buy presents for the patients.

Fun Fact #3

Whitman used an unusual style of poem rhythm call free verse, which sound like natural speech. It was unusual for his time.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Whitman

Poet: John Ashbery Fun Fact

OrianaChong — 2026-01-09 05:27:22 UTC

Fun Fact #1:

John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and many more, making him one of the most honored American poets ever.

Fun Fact #2:

Ashbery wrote art criticism and was deeply influenced by visual art, especially abstract expressionism, which shape his unusual, dreamlike poetic style.

Fun Fact #3:

Ashbery’s Some Trees (1956) won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, judged by the famous poet W. H. Auden, who claim he hadn’t understood a word of the manuscript.

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-ashbery

Poet: Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Fun Fact

OrianaChong — 2026-01-09 05:40:52 UTC

Fun Fact #1

Dr. Seuss's biggest hit Green Eggs and Ham beginned from a challenge from his publisher, asking him to write a book using only 50 different words.

Fun Fact #2

Dr. Seuss never had biological children of his own, despite becoming children books best selling author.

Fun Fact #3

The main library at the University of California, San Diego is called Geisel Library in his honor.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/8-things-didnt-know-dr-seuss?

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