Transcript Literary Period Presentation - Diego Hernandez`s Junior ePortfolio

LITERARY PERIOD: THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND
ITS AFTERMATH
Dates: 1850-1890
By: Diego Hernandez, Anthony Hoang, Monserrat Coria, Joyce Ayala and
Hector Parra
HISTORICAL FACTS/EVENTS
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: 1853
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Civil War: 1861-1865
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Slavery
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Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency: 1861-1865
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Emancipation Proclamation: 1863
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: 1865
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Reconstruction Period: 1865-1877
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Andrew Johnson’s Presidency: 1865-1869
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Franco-Prussian War: 1866-1870
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Christopher Scholes invents the modern typewriter: 1867
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Ulysses S. Grant Presidency: 1869-1877
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Graham Bell invents the telephone: 1876
LIFESTYLE
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Social Ladder:
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Elite
Africans
Middle Class
Slaves
Lower Class
Independent Farmers
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Entertainment: Theatres, Music, Photography, and Dances
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Medicine was in its early stages
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Occupations: Plantation owner, small farmer, merchant, tradesman, soldier
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Dress:
Free
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ERA
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Ideology
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Economics
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US
• North wanted the end of slavery
• Despised the South and wanted to destroy the planters aristocracy
• South fought to uphold states rights to defend their way of life
• Reconstruction Era- the reorganization of the South readmitted into the Union
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Valued morals
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Legal Segregation
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Black Suffrage
TYPES OF LITERATURE FOUND IN ERA
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Diaries
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Slave narratives/accounts
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Spirituals
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Short stories
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Journals
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Letters
MAJOR AUTHORS & PRIMARY WORKS
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Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
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Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina & War and Peace
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Frederick Douglass – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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Abraham Lincoln – The Emancipation Proclamation
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Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea & Around the World in Eighty Days
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Henry David Thoreau – Walden
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Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species
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Herman Melville- Moby Dick
FOCUS OF WRITING/TOPICS
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Horrors and injustices of slavery
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Experience of War
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Realism
• Started in France and focused on contemporary life and society
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Victorian Period of Literature
• Started in Britain where novels eventually replaced poems as the most popular way
literature was made
• Depicted difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, and a little bit of luck, win
out in the end
THEMES
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Survival
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Endurance
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Adventure
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Equality
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Importance of Morals
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Collaboration
ALLUSIONS FROM THE ERA
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Term “sideburns” from General Burnside
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Term “Yankees” described American northerners
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Term “bad eggs” – from the Milwaukee Daily American
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“A house divided against itself cannot stand” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Snug as a bug” – meant very comfortable
ERA LEGACY
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Emancipation Proclamation
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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Reconstructed Southern American Society
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Mark Twain and Jules Verne
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Advancement of technology
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The era would lead to nonviolent protests against segregation led by Martin Luther King
Jr., and eventually, equal rights for blacks.
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The Triple Alliance would be important in WWI
WORKS CITED
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Literature and Language Arts. California: Holt McDougal, 2009. Print.
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"Realism in American Literature." Realism in American Literature. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov.
2013. <http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm>.
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"Time Line of The Civil War, 1861." Time Line of The Civil War. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov.
2013. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html>.
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"Victorian Literature." - Literature Periods & Movements. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.online-literature.com/periods/victorian.php>.
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"eHistory.com: World History." eHistory.com: World History. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.
<http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay.cfm?Era_id=13>.