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American Lit Time Line Test
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Literature
12th Grade
11/29/2011
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Puritianism
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1600-1750
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Puritianism
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Jamestown
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Puritianism
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Scarlet Letter
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Puritianism
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Salem Witch Trials
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Puritianism
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Small pox epidemic
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Puritianism
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corruption influenced people to come to america for freedom and people wrote about it
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Rationalism
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1750-1810
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Rationalism
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Voltaire-free trade, separation of church and state
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Rationalism
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Montesquieu-separation of powers
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Rationalism
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Revolutionary War
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Rationalism
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Independance July 4, 1774
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Rationalism
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Constitution 1781
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Rationalism
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Themes in writing: reason and scientific observation, freedom from restrictive laws
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Rationalism
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Ben Franklin, enlightenment
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Rationalism
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Jefferson, Enlightenment
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Rationalism
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Paine, Enlightenment
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Rationalism
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John Locke, inalienable rights, constitution
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Rationalism
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influenced by Voltaire, John Locke, Montesquieu, past writers. Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine used those ideas.
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Romanticism
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1803-1860
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Romanticism
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Hendry David Thoreau-his ideas on civil disobedience influenced ghandi, Martin Luther ing Jr., Tolstoy
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Romanticism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, self reliance, transcendentalism
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Romanticism
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Gold Rush
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Romanticism
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Louisiana Purchase
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Romanticism
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Louis and Clark
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Romanticism
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Mountain Men
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Realism
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1860-1920
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Realism
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Mark Twain, wrote Huckleberry Finn
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Realsim B
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The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
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Realism
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Walt Whitman wrote poem "O Captain My Captain"
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Realism
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end of civil war
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Realism
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first car
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Realism
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first plane
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Realism
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WWI 1914-1919
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Realism
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1912 Titanic
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Realism
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Transcontinental Railroad 1869
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Realism
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Industrial Revolution
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Existentialism
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18th Amendment, Prohibition of Alcohol
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Existentialism
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19th Amendment, women's rights
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Existentialism
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1920-1929
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Existentialism
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Ernest Hemingway, Iceberg Theory=it's not what's on the surface, it's what's not. Wrote Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Killed himself.
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Existentialism
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Great Gatsby, about American dream, can't go back in time, coined jazz age
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Existentialism
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Prohibition, 18th amendment
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Existentialism
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Roaring 20s
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Existentialism
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Stock market crash
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Existentialism
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jazz age
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Existentialism
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scopes monkey trial
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Existentialism
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ended with stock market crash=depression
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Realism B
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1924-1953
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Realism B
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Grapes of Wrath, dust bowl tale, Steinbeck
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Realism B
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FDR New Deal
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Realism B
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Rise of Hitler
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Realism B
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Pearl Harbor
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Realism B
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Start of WWII
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Realism B
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Robert Frost "Road Less Traveled"
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Realism B
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William Faukner wrote The Sound and the Fury
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Realism B
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Cold War
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Realism B
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McCarthy
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Realism B
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atomic bombs
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Existentialism B
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1953-1974
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Existentialism B
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Allan Ginsberg, "Howl"
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Existentialism B
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Tomothy Leerey, looking like trying to encourage teens to use LSD, Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out
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Existentialism B
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Jack Karowack, Iowa girls are the best
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Existentialism B
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William burrows, wrote Naked Lunch
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Existentialism B
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Existentialism B
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Watergate Scandal
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Existentialism B
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Assasination of JFK
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Existentialism B
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Vietnam
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Romanticism
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Realism
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Freedom of slaves
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