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American Literature Timeline

A Growing Nation

1800~1870

1812 U.S. declares war on Great Britain.

1820 Missouri Compromise bans slavery in parts of new territories.

1846~1848 Mexican war; United States expands borders.

1848 Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.

1850 California admitted to the Union.

A Nation is Born

1750~1800

1773 Phillis Wheatley's Poems published in England.

1775~1783 American Revolution.

1801 Thomas Jefferson, principal author of Declaration of Independence, elected President.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Meter

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography

The Autobiography

A Gathering of Voices

1490~1750

William Cullen Bryant

No written story of the Native Americans exists.

Thanatopsis

Olaudah Equiano

1492 Christopher Columbus reached North America.

Parable

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Slave narrative

1608 Captain John Smith writes A True Relation... of Virginia.

The Minister's Black Veil

The interesting Narrative... Olaudah Equiano

1741 Great Awakening begins to sweep the colonies.

Thomas Jefferson

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When Grizzlies

Walked Upright

Origin myths

Nature

The declaration

of independence

Persuasion

Self-Reliance

by Modoc

Slant rhyme

Emily Dickinson

The General

History of Virginia

Because I could not

stop for Death

Narrative accounts

by John Smith

I heard a fly buzz-

when I died

Freeverse

Personification

Phillis Wheatley

Huswifery

Walt Whitman

An Hemn to the Evening

Puritan Plain style

by Edward Taylor

Song of myself

Leaves of Grass

To His Excellency, General Washington

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