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Regionalism and Realism 1,880- 1,910 Michael Ros 4A #21 - Coggle Diagram
Regionalism and Realism 1,880- 1,910 Michael Ros 4A #21
Realism
It is a reaction against romanticism, it focuses on the ordinary and common in lower and middle classes, and shows improbable things but it plasm them as possible.
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Timeline
1889, reporter Nellie Bly begins record trip around the world
1893, Colorado first state to grant women right to vote
1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1897, Klondike Gold Rush begins
1883, Thomas Edison discovers that electric current can be sent through space
1898, Spanish-American War
1881, Clara Barton founds American Red Cross
1902, Muckraking movement begins
1880, Andrew Carnegie begins establishing libraries
1,903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild
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Historical context
America grows and becomes the world´s biggest economy. Civil war put end to optimistic of the mid-nineteenth century, now the country doesn´t has a clear direction, the south was poor and the north was doing great.
Amrerica isn´t what Thomas Jefferson wanted, he wanted an agrairan country with small towns and family frams.
The Gilded age starts and large corporations become wealth and inequality becomes an important topic
Regionalism
Shows Americans who is live on other places of their country, and shows the atmosphere and the local color of people
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