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Romanticism
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Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
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Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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U.S-Mexican War
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is published
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is published
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The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthhorne
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Oh Susanna! written by Stephen Foster
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Civil War
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Realism
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Regionalism
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Naturalism
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Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Imagism
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Harlem Renaissance
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Modernism
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Women gain the right to vote
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The Great Gatsby is published
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
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Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
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Their Eyes Were Watching God published
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World War 2
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The Beat Generation
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The Catcher in the Rye is published
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Civil Rights Movement
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Post-Modernism
