American Literature Timeline

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Enlightenment

Civil war era

REalism

Roaring 20s

WWII

The earliest examples of American Literature are Native American myths and songs.

Early settlers became true Americans and created a new Nation using the ideals of the Enlightenment philosophers.

Transcendentalism and Romanticism were the literary movements that inspired the Civil War era

The reconstruction era was filled with many difficulties of affirming the new American identity still haunted by the issues of racism

The economic boom post WWI led to an era of excess and moral decay.

America will assert itself as an economic and military potentate and will establish the new identity of Capitalism for the world.