year
author
event
quotes from
Isms
100
1800-1860
What is American Romanticism
100
Believed in self-reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
100
The war between the states
What is the Civil War
100
"I am a man...even if I ain't a whole one. I got...a moral intelligence
What is The Life You Save May be Your Own/Flannery O'Conner
100
Intuition over reason
What is American Romanticism
200
1850-1900
What is Realism
200
Author of Plymouth Plantation
Who is William Bradford
200
The war to declare independence from Great Britian
What is the Revolutionary War
200
Nevermore
What is The Raven/Edgar Allen Poe
200
Everyone has dark thoughts that should be explored psychlogically through stories
What is Dark Romanticism
300
1840-1860
What is Transcendentalism
300
The Devil and Tom Walker
Who is Washington Irving
300
Published collection of new and commonly used 'American' words
What is Webster's dictionary
300
"I want arsenic."
What is A Rose for Emily/William Faulkner
300
rejection of the ideal hero in favor or a hero with flaws
What is Modernism
400
1900-1950
What is Modernism
400
Appeared to be a loser on paper, but his work shows his brilliance, though he was not as popular as his friend with the initials RWE
Who is Henry David Thoreau
400
The war that changed the way people viewed the American Dream
What is World War I
400
Give me liberty or give me death
What is The Speech to the Virginia Convention/Patrick Henry
400
Plain style writing used for diaries, histories and journals
What is Puritanism
500
1919-1929
What is Harlem Renaissance
500
First American poet published
Who is Anne Bradstreet
500
Explosion of Black art in the form of music, stories, sculpture, paintings, etc.
What is Harlem Renaissance
500
"I now resolved that , however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact."
What is The Battle with Mr. Covey/Frederick Douglass
500
Spontaneous feelings and intuition are more valuable than intellect and rationality
What is Transcendentalism
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