Ap Us Literature

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Letters From an American Farmer by Crevecoeur

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1782 the new republic was home to one of the most free and equal societies in the world

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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1776 pamphlet urging the colonists to split from England,

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Alexis de Tocquville’s Democracy in America

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1835 attempts to describe what makes America unique

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Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience & Walden

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1849 essay on the right and obligation to follow your conscience

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1852 novel portray the negative consequences of slavery

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Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor

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1881 book condemning the government’s Indian policy

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Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward

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1881 utopian novel

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Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

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1890 expose of poverty in New York

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Frederick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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1893 essay that without expansion of land america wouldn't be america

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Frank Norris’ The Octopus

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1901 novel about the stranglehold the Southern Pacific Railroad had on California farmers

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W. E. B. du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk

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1903 book describing the strengths of black culture and attacked Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise

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Lincoln Steffens’ The Shame of the Cities

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1903 workings of political machines

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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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1906 the bad meat packing industry

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Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt

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1922 novel that ridiculed middle class society

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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1925 novel that reveals the emptiness of wealth

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William Whyte Jr.’s The Organization Man

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1956 a book about executives shaping the world

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Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

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1955 book about the 50’s corporate rat race in America

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John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society

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1958 widening gap between the richest and the poorest affecting economy

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

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1962 book that launched the environmental movement

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Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique

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1963 book that recognized womens rights