Timeline by James Womble (Student)

begining of American history

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Native Americans 2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D: Oral literature: Deep respect for nature and animals, poems such as: Nature poem and The song of Haiwatha

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period name:authors and works

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The Native Americans would use ride buffalo to traval and also would herd them too

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male Native Americans would go out and do all the hunting and gathering of food and be the provider for the family while female Native Americans would do the farming and would cook take care of children and also would deal animal furr and skin

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Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800

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present day

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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"

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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.

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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"

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the puritans said the English were persecuting them but English said the puritans were trying to persecute them

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when the battles with the Indians ended they took the ones who survived and sold them into slavery

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period name: Rationalism

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"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

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1775-1783 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

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

fun fact

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In the revolutionary war more soldiers died from disease and sickness than soldiers that died in combat.

fun fact2

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The settlement of Jamestown may have resorted to cannibalism during a brutal winter called "The Starving Time" (1609-1610) due to starvation, disease, and a lack of food.

Realism fun fact

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The whole main purpose and idea of realism was that people could find the truth in anything and improve society through reason.

Realism fun fact2

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Realismist didn't believe in God or any Gods. Also the Age of enlightenment was celebrated to emphasize reason over superstition and science of blind faith.

Transcendentalism

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or "The American Renaissance"

Period Special Dates

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1840-1860 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 Movements

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

fun fact#1

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the divine equality of each soul was the main interest of Transcendentalism

fun fact#2

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some things they did for fun in the American Renaissance where: tournaments, hunting, and feasting for the nobility, as well as music, dance, storytelling, and games like chess for both classes

modern fun fact

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people standing up against abortion. there are many people who stand up against this horrible thing that tricks people into thinking they need it to enjoy life and not have to deal with it and many ways people stand up against it one being social media and post people make or conversations people make. and another is protest when groups of people stand against it shouting and chanting sometimes outside courthouses or federal properties and buildings.

modern fact#2

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there are people who stand up against stuff all the time that we don't even realize most the time and these people are missionaries that travil all around the world for other people and helps them with what they need or just to preach the gospel. missionaries are against the way people are living so they go and help and start to turn their lives around for the better.

Period Name: Romanticism

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Industrialization

Period Special Dates

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1800-1860

The War of 1812
1812-1815

California Gold Rush
January 24, 1848-1855

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)

Famous 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

American Renaissance Literature authors

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson.

fun fact about the puritans

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the puritans enjoyed drinking beer and playing card games like whist and cribbage

Tupac Shakur 1971- 1996(who's name means thankful)

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fun facts about-he once planned to write a cookbook to benefit charity,

fun fact #2

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he actualy did ballet as a teenager and had a passion for it too.

fun fact about -Li-Young Lee born August 19, 1957

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his great-grandfather was China's first Republican President

fun fact #2

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after 4 long years his family escaped Indonesia in 1964 after a period of imprisonment

fun fact #3

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he meet his wife at his grandfathers church

Emily Dickinson-a prolific American poet born in 1830

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fun fact about- Emily Dickinson

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she wrote 1,800 poems

fun fact -Emily Dickinson

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she was not fully appreciated until after her death in 1886, when her sister discovered the manuscripts. She was also an avid gardener

The Salem witch trials: between February 1692 and May 1693

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Were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

Realism

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1850-1900

Civil War

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1861-1865

Reconstruction Era

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1865-1877

Period Characteristics

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1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

Famous Authors and Works

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

Fun facts about Mark Twain 1835 to 1910

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1: Halley's Comet enthusiast who predicted his own death with it

2: cat lover with funny dog names

3: friend to Nikola Tesla

fun facts about Alice Walker-born 1944

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she was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

fun fact #2

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At age 8, she was blinded in her right eye by a BB pellet fired by her brother. She has said this forced her to become an observer and writer.

fun fact #3

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she was part of the first legally married interracial couple in the state

Period Special Dates

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Modernism

1900-1950

Period Special Dates

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World War I 1914-1918

The Great Depression

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1929-1939

Period Special Dates

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World War ll 1939-1945

Period Characteristics

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

Famous Authors and Works

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

The American Dream fun fact #2

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) actually presented the American Dream as a doomed, Gilded Age illusion, highlighting the era's contradictions between wealth and happiness.

The American Dream fun fact #1

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It is said to be a set of ideals including representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, in which freedom is interpreted as the opportunity for individual prosperity and success

American dream 30s/40sfun fact#1

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Despite extreme poverty in the 1930s, 80% of households owned radios by 1938, using them for free, escapist entertainment.

https://www.history.com/articles/life-for-the-average-family-during-the-great-depression

American Dream (30s/40s) fun fact #2

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postwar dream was epitomized by Levittown, New York, where cookie-cutter homes were built rapidly, allowing veterans to achieve the dream of homeownership.

https://www.history.com/articles/life-for-the-average-family-during-the-great-depression

fun fact#1 about the American dream (1950s)

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. It was a decade where conformity was highly valued, and the "ideal" life included owning a home in the suburbs, a car, and modern, labor-saving appliances.

https://flexbooks.ck12.org/user:zxbpc2rzcziwmthaz21hawwuy29t/cbook/episd-2019-2020-us-history/section/8.3/primary/lesson/american-advancement-and-shifting-priorities-1950-1960/

Fun fact#2 about the American dream (1950s)

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in the 1950s was defined by rapid postwar expansion, intense consumerism, and the rise of the nuclear suburban family, fueled by a booming economy and new technologies.

https://flexbooks.ck12.org/user:zxbpc2rzcziwmthaz21hawwuy29t/cbook/episd-2019-2020-us-history/section/8.3/primary/lesson/american-advancement-and-shifting-priorities-1950-1960/

Period Name

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Harlem Renaissance
"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"

1920–1940

Period Special Dates

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"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Period Special Dates

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Prohibition
1920-1933

Period Characteristics

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1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

Famous Authors and Works

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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

American Dream (1960s/1970s) Fun Fact#1

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this time frame was deeply rooted in the economy and achieving a more equality of opportunity in terms of garnering familial wealth for the American dream.

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201960s%2C%20poverty,12%20percent%20of%20white%20Americans.

Fun Fact#2 American Dream (1970s)

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In 1970, the average home cost just 2.2 times the median household income, making homeownership highly accessible compared to later decades.

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201960s%2C%20poverty,12%20percent%20of%20white%20Americans.

Harlem Renaissance fun fact#1

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It Was also Known as the "New Negro Movement"

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Harlem Renaissance fun fact #2

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Liberty figures were very young when they started: Poet Countee Cullen was only 15 when he moved to Harlem to start his literary journey, eventually becoming a leading voice of the era.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Fun facts about the American dream (1980s)

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In 1980, the median home price was just , while a new car cost around. Public four year college tuition averaged only per year in 1980.

Fun Fact#2 about the American dream (1980)

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The era was marked by films and culture that celebrated the "greed is good" mentality, focusing on financial domination.

Fun fact#1 (The American Dream during the 90's)

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the 1990s featured a paradox where the longest economic expansion in US history still led to a decline in average income for the poorest 20% of Americans.

https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-evolution/#:~:text=Extending%20itself%20further%20from%20the,important%20role%20in%20American%20society.

Period Special Dates

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Korean War
1950-1953

Period Special Dates

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Vietnam War
1954-1975

Period Name

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Contemporary "Postmodernism"

1950–present

Period Characteristics

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1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

Famous Authors and Works

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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

Fun Fact#1 (2000s)

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The 2000s era was defined by rapid digital transformation and cultural shifts.

Fun Fact#2 (2003)

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Following the 2003 release of Finding Nemo, clownfish populations in some areas dropped 75% due to high demand for them as pets.