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American lit timeline, 1860-70, (In the years since its inauspicious debut…

- - - - 1910 onwards
        
        1920
        
        1920 - Women given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
        
        1920 - Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. The Prohibition era sees a mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
        
        1917-18. US intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations
        
        1924 - Congress gives indigenous people right to citizenship.
        
        1929-33 - 13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
        
        1933 - President Franklin D Roosevelt launches "New Deal" recovery programme which includes major public works. Sale of alcohol resumes.
        
        1924
        
        1917-18
        
        1929-33
        
        1933
        
        World War II and the Cold War
        
        1945 - US drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders.
        
        Literary movements
        
        Edwardian(1901 to 1910)
        Edwardian literature marked a growing division between high and low literature, as well as the growth of children's literature.
        
        The Lost Generation(1918 to 1929)
        Several of the best known authors of the 20th century fall into this literary movement. These authors all lived and worked in Paris between the two world wars.
        
        Naturalism(1900 to 1930)
        Naturalism is a philosophical movement in literature. Naturalists identified humans as animals, studying their character in relation to their surroundings. Emile Zola is a well-known naturalist author.
        
        Harlem Renaissance(1920s)
        During the 1920s, in Harlem, New York, a strong literary movement developed among African-American writers, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
        
        Beat(1950s and 1960s)
        The beat authors were primarily poets. This was a counterculture and youth culture movement beginning in the 1950s. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were well known beat poets.
        
        Postmodernism(1965 to Present)
        Postmodernism is a literary movement embracing diversity, word play and other attributes of modern literature. Jorge Luis Borges is an excellent example of modern literary postmodernism.
        
        1941 - Japanese warplanes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii; US declares war on Japan; Germany declares war on US, which thereafter intervenes on a massive scale in World War II, eventually helping to defeat Germany.
      - 1903
        
        U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone.
        
        December 17
        
        Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty
        
        US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures
        
        Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon
        
        US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk
        
        The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously
- - - - Expansion of shipping trade and establishment of government
      - Men looked towards science as better understanding of worked
      - **Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral - Phyllis Wheatley
      - Colonia style architecture became more common as population grew
      - Many American settings revolve around large cities such as Boston and Philadelphia
      - Common Sense - Thomas Pain
      - 1700
        
        Home traditional wood/stone structure
        
        Colonial population is estimated at 50,400.
        
        Tens of thousands of English migrants settle along the Atlantic seaboard of North America between 1607 and 1675; land previously the territory of Native Americans
        
        English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York
        
        1650
        
        The Tenth Muse Sprung Up in America - Anne Bradstreet