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							       AMERICAN LITERATURE TIMELINE WORKSHEET

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FOUNDATIONS TO 1800                                  ROMANTICS (1800-1860)


1781 – American Revolutionary War ends               1828 – Webster publishes
                                                     dictionary.


1741 – Jonathan Edwards “Sinners In The Hands        1841 – Ralph Waldo publishes his essays
                                                     including “Self-Reliance”
       of An Angry God                                                     -

1630-Puritans migrate to New England                 1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The
                                                     Scarlet Letter

                                                     1810 – Mexican War of independence
1700 – Europeans settle into what is now
       the United States                             1823 – Monroe Doctrine
                                                     encouraging independence
                                                     from Europe.

1775 – 1781 American Revolutionary War               1819 – Simon Bolivar, South
                                                     American Independence
                                                     leader becomes Columbia’s
                                                     first president.

1789 - George Washington first President             1849 – California Gold Rush

1793 – Increase in cotton gin leads to increase      1859 – Charles Darwin’s
                                                     theory of evolution.
        in slave labor
CIVIL WAR ERA (1850-1890)

1861-1865 – Civil War results in the death of more than 6000,000 soldiers.
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1865 – slavery abolished

1865 – Abraham Lincoln assassinated.

1876 – the telephone was invented

1879 – electric light bulb invented

1852 – Harriot Beeche Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin stirs abolitionists to protest the
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Devastation of the war caused many writers to turn away from Romanticism and focused
more on ordinary people and ordinary events….thus…..the formation of REALISM.



REALISM (1880-1914)

Population of America increased by more than half.

1884 – Huckleberry Finn

1895 – Red Badge of Courage

1881 – Clara Barton organizes the American Red Cross.

1898 – The Spanish-American War

1913 – Henry Ford announces conveyor belt technology for mass-producing automobiles.

1890 – More than 200 Sioux are killed by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

1914 – US intervenes in the Mexican Revolution

1914 – World War I begins

As people tired of Realism, a new group of writers began to respond with abandon t
THE MODERNS (1914-1939)


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1914 – WWI begins

1917 – US enters the conflice

1920 – 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote.

1929 – US Stock Market crash

1929 – Beginning of the Great Depression

1920s – Harlem Renaissance showcases contributions of African American Literature.

1925 – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby



THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1939 – PRESENT)

1941-1945 – US enters WWII

1945 – first atomic bomb used against Japan

1991 – Soviet Union collapses

2001 – Terrorists crash airplanes into US Pentagon and World Trade Centers

2003 – US invades Iraq