Historical Context Flashcards
1
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Puritan Era
A
1620 arrived in new
-great awakening
2
Q
revolutionary
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1776 independent colonists
question faith
3
Q
Romantic
A
1819
Industrial rev. (bleak)
4
Q
Transcendentalist
A
1826
Lyceum movement- make society utopian
-labor strikes and unions (from industrial Rev.)
5
Q
Realism
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1851 women rights
6
Q
naturalism
A
1880 humans are insignificant in the face of nature
Charles Darwin
7
Q
Modern
A
1914
WW1
Great Depression
8
Q
Harlem Renaissance
A
1902
Great migration
After WW1
9
Q
Post modernism
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WW11
Cold War Vietnam War
technology inventions
ethnical minorities
