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Christopher Columbus
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Colonialism
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John Smith
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Colonialism
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William Bradford
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Colonialism
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Ben Franklin
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Puritanism
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Thomas Paine
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Puritanism
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Thomas Jefferson
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Puritanism
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Phillis Wheatley
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Puritanism
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De Crevecoeur
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Puritanism
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Washingotn Irving
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Romanticism
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William Cullen Bryant
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Romanticism
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Romanticism
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Fireside Poets
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fireside Poet
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James Russell Lowell
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Fireside Poet
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Transcedentalist
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Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Anti-Transcendentalism
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Herman Melville
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Anti-Transcendentalist
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Crane (Red Badge)
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Naturalism
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Mark Twain
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Regionalist
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Bret Harte
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Regionalist
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Jack London
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Regionalist
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Kate Chopin
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Regionalist
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Edith Wharton
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Regionalist
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Willa Cather
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Regionalism
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Regionalist
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T.S. Eliot
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Modernist
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Ezra Pound
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Modernist
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Modernist
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E.E. Cummings
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Modernist
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W. H. Auden (THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN)
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Modernist
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Thomas Wolfe
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Modernist
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Ernest Hemingway
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Modernist
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Modernist
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Arthur Miller (Death of a)
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Modernist
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Native American Myth
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a story passed down through oral tradition within a native tribe that told of the beginning of the world
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Colonialism
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historical accoutns of colonial ventures that often sought to entice the sponsor of the particular voyage
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Puritanism
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religious movement that bred a new form of simple literature dedicated to simplistic items of everyday life
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Anne Bradstreet
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Puritanism
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Native American Myth
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a story passed down through oral tradition within a native tribe that told of the beginning of the world
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Anne Bradstreet
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Puritanism
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Edward Taylor
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Puritanism
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Jonathan Edwards
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Puritanism
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Romanticism
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literary/artistic movement of the 19th century that elevates imagination over reason and intuition over fact. bends rules of reality, reaction against reason
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Fireside Poetry
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Family oriented writing
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Transcedentalism
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an intellectual movement founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Believed in the perpetual openess of the human mind to new influx of light and power; belief in inspiration and ecstasy. Man's possibilities, seeking deeper truth
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Anti-Transcendentalism
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literary movement characterized by the the beliefe that there is natural evil present in the world and that man possesses distinct limitations and fallibility
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Naturalism
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the belief that forces greater than man dictate life`
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regionalism
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literary movement that focused on capturing the geography, customs, traditions, beliefs, language, and people of a particular region
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modernism
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literary momvent that sought to capture the dissapointment and disillusionment in the 20th century following WWI. (AN END TO OPTIMISM)
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Realism
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writing meant to capture life as it really is
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Imagism
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writing meant to boil something down to its very essence
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