American literature timeline
40,000 BC - 20,000 BC Native Americans
1600 - 1800 Puritanism
First "American"
colonies established
Salem Witch Trials
1750 - 1800 Rationalism "The Age of Reason" or "The Enlightenment"
Revolutionary War
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
1800 - 1860 Romanticism
Industrialization
War of 1812
California Gold Rush
1840 - 1860 Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance"
Abolitionist
Utopian
Women's Suffrage Movements
1850 - 1900 Realism
Civil War
Reconstruction
1900 - 1950 Modernism
World War I
The Great Depression
World War II
1920 - 1940 Harlem Renaissance
"The New Negro Movement"
Prohibition
1950 - Present Contemporary "Postmodernism"
Korean War
Vietnam War
1600 - 1800 Puritanism
First "American"
colonies established
Salem Witch Trials
1750 - 1800 Rationalism "The Age of Reason" or "The Enlightenment"
Revolutionary War
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
1800 - 1860 Romanticism
Industrialization
War of 1812
California Gold Rush
1840 - 1860 Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance"
Abolitionist
Utopian
Women's Suffrage Movements
1850 - 1900 Realism
Civil War
Reconstruction
1900 - 1950 Modernism
World War I
The Great Depression
World War II
1920 - 1940 Harlem Renaissance
"The New Negro Movement"
Prohibition
1950 - Present Contemporary "Postmodernism"
Korean War
Vietnam War