Timeline by Joaquin Gonzalez (Student)

Start

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-18 23:57:11 UTC

Beginning of American History

Native Americans

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:01:56 UTC

2200 B.C. - 1607 A.D.

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.

Native Americans: Authors and Works

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:02:26 UTC

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Native Americans: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:02:45 UTC

10th Century: The vikings i.e. Leif Erikson found North America and was the first civilization on North America that wasn't the Natives.

Native Americans: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:03:12 UTC

1000-1520 A.D.: Mississippian culture arises within North America

Direction Note: Special Dates

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:03:50 UTC

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

1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

Present Day

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-09-19 00:04:19 UTC

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First American Colonies

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-03 23:55:58 UTC

(1600-1800)

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.

Authors and Works

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-03 23:57:29 UTC

William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

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

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

Puritanism: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-04 00:01:40 UTC

London Company first landed in Virginia, on 12/20/1606, but it wasn't the first attempt at exploiting America's resources.

Puritanism: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-04 00:06:38 UTC

The Europeans originally turned to slavery upon seeing the Spaniards enslave the Native Americans, so they traded for Africans to do their labor.

Direction Note: Special Dates

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-04 00:07:00 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, A.K.A "The Age of Reason" or "The Age of Enlightenment"

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-15 05:10:41 UTC

(17th Century)

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

Authors & Works

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-15 05:11:46 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

Rationalism: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-15 05:12:12 UTC

By the beginning of the 17th century, the original 13 colonies transitioned into permanent settlements.

Rationalism: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-15 05:12:33 UTC

Virginia was the most populous of the British colonies in America with a population of 59,000.

Direction Note: Special Dates

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-15 05:13:01 UTC

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Transcendentalism, "The American Renaissance"

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-23 02:14:49 UTC

(1840-1860)

Authors & Works

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-23 02:16:06 UTC

Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

Transcendentalism: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-23 02:16:32 UTC

The literary scene during this period was overtaken by the "Brahmins", a group of New England Harvard Professors: notably Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

Transcendentalism: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-23 02:16:45 UTC

During this period, the famous writer Herman Melville emerged. Famous for writing the book known worldwide, Moby Dick.

Direction Note: Special Dates

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-10-23 02:17:10 UTC

1840-1860
Transcendentalism

Modern Day Event #1: Tank Man

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-01 00:59:43 UTC

The day after the Tiananmen Square Protests, an unknown man stood in front of the tanks driving into the city, halting them, he said “Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you.”

He is only known as "Tank Man"

Modern Day Event #2: Corazon Aquino

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-01 01:04:41 UTC

Aquino ran in the elections against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986, to stand against his rule.

Romanticism & Industrialization

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-06 04:39:16 UTC

1800-1860

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)

Direction Note: Special Dates

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-06 04:40:29 UTC

The War of 1812

1812-1815

California Gold Rush

1848-1855

Famous Authors and Works

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-06 04:41:14 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: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-06 04:46:49 UTC

It was around this era, specifically 1813, that the widespread idea of manifest destiny arose via John O'Sullivan a newspaper editor.

Romanticism: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-06 04:47:08 UTC

On April 30th, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana, doubling the size of the U.S. at the time.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-15 04:03:50 UTC

Hawthorne's son, John Hawthorne, was one of three judges that was at the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2024-11-15 04:07:13 UTC

Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his bitterness in losing his job through the writing of The Scarlet Letter.

McCarthyism: Fact #1

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 02:56:09 UTC

1950's

The period of McCarhyism is stemmed from the actions of U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who attacked other people of repute, accusing them of communism, homosexuality, and others.

McCarthyism: Fact #2

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:05:14 UTC

1950's

McCarthy gained his prominence as a finder of communists when President Truman ordered background checks on every U.S. citizen in service to the government when it was found that Alger Hiss was guilty of espionage, a high ranking state official.

Poet Facts: Maya Angelou

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:16:10 UTC

In 1993, Maya Angelou wrote the award winning poem "On the Pulse of Morning" which was composed for the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

Poet Facts: Maya Angelou

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:27:04 UTC

Maya Angelou traveled to Africa once she joined the Herlem Writers Guild, visiting Cairo and Ghana.

Poet Facts: Stephen Crane

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:41:10 UTC

When Crane's father died in 1880, his mother had to raise him, and his 14 other siblings, despite this, he was still able to attend college and acquire a degree in writing.

Poet Facts: Stephen Crane

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:45:53 UTC

In 1897, due to his fascination a a war writer, Crane went to Cuba upon the ship "Commodore", which had been sunken and Crane was then reported to have drowned, yet he was found to have rowed to shore on a dinghy, having also saved the captain, cook, and oiler, also escaping with a belt of gold.

Poet Facts: Dr. Seuss

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:50:50 UTC

The origin of Geisel's(Dr. Seuss) pen name, came from his surname(Seuss) and the Dr. part originates from his incompleted doppctorate degree.

Poet Facts: Dr. Seuss

jgonzalez6_1 — 2025-01-02 03:57:27 UTC

When WWII began, he shiofted to making political cartoons, often poking fun at America's isolationism during the beginning of the war, and at Japanese people for the attack of Pearl Harbor.