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New Directions 1910 - 1930, TIMELINE, The opening of the Panama Canal. -…

- - - - Communication media made people more aware of how others lived.
      - There was a break from the past. This also happen in Europe
      - New inventions allowed people to travel faster.
      - Artists shared a desire to capture he complexity of modern life.
      - Life was different
- - - - Many American writers lived in Europe.
      - The European and American artistic communities drew closer together.
      - Improved communication and transportation.
        
        American Writers were able to....
        
        Share ideas.
        
        Exchange views.
        
        Made Europe and the East more accesible.
      - The need of change was deep.
      - America became a world of power.
- - - - Its purpose was....
        
        To break with the style and form of the XIX Century
      - Modernists wrote in new forms
      - Is interested in the human mind
      - Is fragmentary
      - Shows rather than tells
      - The reader can create his own conclusions
- - - - Studied the elements of the past
      - They used the past to create a new relationship with the new world
      - Broke out of old forms and style and generated a new one
      - They're archivement opened new doors of possibility.
      - First step in search of new art
- - - - Jeanette Rankin is first woman elected to House of Representatives
    - - U.S population: 103.5 million
    - - U.S declares war on Germany
    - - Woman gain right to vote
    - - Central America: Panama Canal opened
    - - Congress makes all native-born American Indians citizens
    - - Henry Ford pioneers assembly line, producing 1,000 Model T automobiles a day
    - - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    - - Harriet Monroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
    - - Sinclair Lewis first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature