Coming to America
This group focused on a strict religious upbringing and predestination.
The Puritans
A story about a man visiting his ailing friend in an old, possibly haunted, manor.
The Fall of the House of Usher.
This was the first published poet in America
Anne Bradstreet
A man ages backwards
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This war ended the Revolutionary Era
This group focused on independence and freedom
The revolutionary writers.
The speaker does not think that he is not crazy.
The Tell-Tale Heart
A story about nature
Nature
This author is known for The Great Gatsby, which was a critique of the roaring 20's.
F Scott Fitzgerald
A movement where Americans were told to stay in the Puritan Church or face eternal damnation
The First Great Awakening
Written by Thomas Paine and focused on independence.
Common Sense
A man discovers many hidden truths during his trip in the woods.
A story about Henry David Thoreau's time alone at his pond
Walden
This person coined the phrase The Lost Generation.
Gertrude Stein
This was a massive dust storm in the midwest that led to drought.
The Dust Bowl
Discussed exploration, survival, and relations with Native Americans. Written by John Smith.
The General History of Virgina
A story that combines folklore and religion. Often called the first Dark Romantic story in American History.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
A story about the beauty of life and death.
Thanatopsis
This person created a literary theory known as the Iceberg Theory.
Ernest Himingway
This was a movement away from traditional church
The Second Great Awakening
These established a need for a US constitution. Written mainly by Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist Papers
A preacher struggles with his hypocrisy.
The Scarlet Letter
The Father of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This person wrote about the dustbowl and struggles of many rural Americans in books such as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck
Economic prosperity, social freedom, and a major cultural change.
The Roaring Twenties