Context Flashcards
During WW2
War correspondent
Book about government propaganda
‘The moon is down’
Characters
Mythopoetic and archetypal
Route 66
Gave the road its name, ‘the mother road’
Indian land
1891- 9000 acres in Oklahoma
Dust bowl
1939-38 natural phenomena caused by severe drought
Black Tuesday
9000 banks fail, 2.3 million flee, 25% unemployment
Farm
Spreckels beet farm
Mini series
‘Harvest gypsies’ focussing on farmers lives
‘Pack of lies’
‘Associated farmers of California’
Battle hymn of the republic
Churchill MLK
Biblical
‘Great wine press of the wrath of god’
Henry Ford
Automobile started industrialisation
Puritans
Based on Calvin ‘elect’
Wanted to purify Catholic Church
Statue of Liberty
Emma Lazarus ‘glows worldwide open’
Salad bowl theory
Coexist together
Professor Huntington
Tomato soup- new flavour
Civil war
1861-65
Uncle toms cabin
Harriet Stowe god wrote through me’
Vernacular
Sociolect
Bans alcohol
18th amendment
Lost generation
Artist out of ww1
Declaration
‘Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness’
J Edgar Hoover
Under surveillance
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife of president franklin, organised congressional hearings into reforming labour needs for migrant camps
Transcendentalism
Mid 19th
Knowledge through intuition away from traditional religion and focus on human unity
Realism
1880s
After civil war
Matter of fact
Naturalism
Human attempt to change destiny
Focus on lower class
How people are controlled by environment
Truth of hardship
Modernism
Reaction of ww1 Industrialisation Rapid social change Reject custodian morality War undermined human faith in society American dream Class divide
