Genre and Style
Characteristics
Historical Context
Examples
Art and Music
100

Main source of political advertisement to sway readers

political pamphlets and speeches

100

Prioritized post-Articles of Confederation

Unity among states

100

Most significant historical event of the era

The Revolutionary War

100

Most popular political pamphlet

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

100

Most prominent genre of music during this era

Baroque/classical

200

Nonfiction literature centered around narrator's interactions with foreign places

Travel writing

200

Common trait of all writers of the era

Focused on the socio-political climate of the US and its betterment

200

Main values emphasized by the Enlightenment

Logic and Reason
200

Papers written to convince New York to ratify the New US Constitution

Federalist Papers

200

Art inspired by ancient civilizations

Neoclassism

300

Spread by political pamphlets and speeches

Knowledge of current affairs

300

Reduced the prevalence of divinity in government

Ideas of the Social Contract and Separation of Power

300

Main European philosophical influence

Montesquieu and John Locke

300

The type of literature Phillis Wheatley wrote

Poetry

300

Heroism, war, tradition, and regality are all...

Neoclassical themes

400
Criticisms, reviews, editorials, reactions, etc. 

Types of persuasive writing

400

Main focus of Jefferson's writings

Government/political reform

400

Influenced by literature in the Age of Reason

Democracy

400

The year Common Sense was published

1775

400

How neoclassicism was expressed in the US (ie., paintings, sculptures, political cartoons, etc.)

Architecture and paintings

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