American Literature and Time Periods

9/11 Battle of Little Big Horn Salem Witch Trials Constitution is adopted Jamestown Colony founded Roanoke Colony founded Plymouth Colony founded Plymouth Colony disestablished Constitution of the United States Irving's Rip Van Winkle Slavery begins Cuban Missile Crisis Stock Market Crash Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Cooper's the Spy The Catcher and the Rye Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five Poe's the Tell-tale Heart The Red Badge of Courage The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Wright's Native Son The Color Purple Stockett's The Help Hernandez's A Cup of Water Under my Bed The Trumpet of the Swan Charlotte's Web Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Ellison's Invisible Man The Grapes of Wrath Invasion of Iraq Invasion of Kuwait Invasion of Afghanistan Intervention in Syrian Civil War Columbine shooting St Germain's Son of a Gun The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Hamilton Wicked Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral The Yellow Wallpaper Bui's The Best We Could Do PA, DE, NJ SC, NH, MA, GA, MD, VA, CT, NY NC RD VT KT TN OH LA IN MS IL AL ME Louisiana Purchase Westward Expansion begins Revolution begins First English Colony to survive founded Slavery ended WWI: start of modernity Cold War over MO AR MI TX, FL IA WI CA MN OR KS WV NV NE CO MT, ND, SD, WA ID WY UT OK AZ, NM AK, HI Alaska purchased Yukon Gold Strike AK made a territory American Samoa made a territory Guam became a territory Northern Mariana Islands made a territory under UN decision Puerto Rico became a territory Philippines US Virgin Islands becomes a territory Philippines gains independence HI made a territory The Crucible Civil War Revolutionary War Colonial Era Antebellum Period The Cold War The Trail of Tears American Renaissance Western Expansion Slavery War of 1812 Vietnam War Korean War WWII WWI The Great Depression The Great Recession The Gulf War Iraq War Reconstruction Gilded Age