Timeline by Emerson Woellhof

Beginning of American History

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Native Americans 2200 B.C.-Tower of Babel, 2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D, 1670--Early settlement Jamestown

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Characterristics:

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.

Native American Fact #1

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Native American spoke more than 300 languages.

Native American Fact #2

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Native Americans made many of the worlds most important crops.

Native Americans: Authors and Works

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Work was just handed down orally.

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800. Period Dates:

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692: Salem Witch Trials

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

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies

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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.

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies: Famous Authors and Works

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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

Puritans Fun Fact #1

ewoellhof — 2025-09-10 18:43:02 UTC

Puritans were English Protestants who searched to update the Church of England.

Puritanism Fun Fact #2

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They were the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" Special Dates:

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment"

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Period Characteristics:

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

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" Famous 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

Rationalism Fun Fact #1

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The Enlightenment drived independence movements in the America and inspired the French Revolution

Rationalism Fun Fact #2

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The movement fostered secularism and separation in the church and state, leading to a greater religious tolerance.

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment"

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Period Characteristics:

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" Period Special Dates

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1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" Famous Authors and Works:

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The Enlightenment Fun Fact #1

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The Enlightenment was not restricted to France.

Enlightenment Fun Fact #2

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The Enlightenment gave us modern science.

Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" Period Special Dates

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" 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 Movements

Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" Famous 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

Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" Fun Fact #1

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This is also when women were protesting for more rights and equal rights as men.

Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" Fun Fact #2

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Emerson and Fuller worked together on the Dial, a magazine

Taking a Stand: Fun Fact #1

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In 2020 a protest was going on called "Black Lives Matter."

Fun Fact: Half of adults in the US say that they support the BLM movement.

Taking a Stand: Fun Fact #2

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In 2025, 12 states have banned abortion. Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

Romanticism: Industrialization Period Special Dates

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1800-1860
The War of 1812
1812-1815
California Gold Rush
1848-1855

Romanticism: Industrialization 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)

Romanticism: Industrialization Famous Authors and Works

ewoellhof — 2025-11-20 00:30:02 UTC

Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Romanticism: Industrialization-Fun Fact #1

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William Blake and Wordsworth make child labor and also the working classes do terrible things.

Romanticism: Industrialization Fun Fact #2

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The factories were changing and developing.

Fun Fact #1 about Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He went to Dowdoin College with his classmates that were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce.

Fun Fact #2 about Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He added a 'w' to his last name to distance himself from his difficult family legacy.

McCarthyism Fun Fact #1

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During this time many celebrities were banned from working due to ruining careers.

McCarthy Fun Fact #2

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McCarthy claimed he had a list of of 205 communist in the State Department.

3 Interesting facts on Robert Frost

ewoellhof — 2026-01-24 15:47:17 UTC

Robert Frost was a farmer in New Hampshire.
The State of Vermont named a mountain after him.
He suffered from depression like his mother and his father was an alcoholic.

Source:

https://www.historyhit.com/culture/facts-about-american-poet-robert-frost/

3 Interesting Facts about Ralph Waldo Emerson

ewoellhof — 2026-01-24 16:00:19 UTC

Emerson lost his father at age 7
Emerson ran a school for girls
He named his daughter after his first wife

Source:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/facts-about-ralph-waldo-emerson

3 Interesting Facts about Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

ewoellhof — 2026-01-24 16:07:40 UTC

He never had any biological children
Dr. Seuss worked in advertising before becoming a children's author
He wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet

Source: https://www.smallstridespreschool.com/new-blog/8-fun-facts-about-dr-seuss-for-national-reading-month