A Short History of the World
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For Junior English
A Short History of the World
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As we read our way through American Literature this year, it’s important to understand what was happening while the authors were writing.
This presentation will give you an overview of major events and help you put things into perspective.
Why, Ms. Hall?
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1492: Christopher Columbus
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but Amerigo Vespuci discovered America.
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1503: Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
1520: Chocolate was introduced to Europe
1558-1603Queen Elizabeth I rules England
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1564-1616: William Shakespeare
1610: King James BibleSee Psalm 46
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1585: Roanoke Colony Vanishes!117 people, including 1st British child born in
America: Virginia Dare.
1607: Jamestown Settlement
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1620: The MayflowerTransported the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts
Descendents of the Mayflower voyagers became leading families in the new colonies.
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1636: Harvard University is built in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1692: Salem Witchcraft Trials
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1749: Sign Language was invented1752: Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment
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1776: American Revolution(fighting the British for control of
the American colonies)
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(We won…)
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(They helped us fight the British, and then thought that what we’d done was a pretty neato thing, so they had a revolution of their own—common people versus royalty/aristocracy…)
1789: The French Revolution
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Washington Irving: Sleepy HollowNathanial Hawthorne: The Scarlet LetterHerman Melville: Moby DickEdgar Allen Poe: The Raven and scary storiesRalph Waldo Emerson: NatureHenry David Thoreau: Waldon
Late 1700’s-early 1800’sAwesome American Authors:
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1832: The Oregon Trail and westward expansion
1836: The Alamo—Texas wins independence from Mexico
1845: Texas becomes a state
Yee-Haw!
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1838: The Underground Railroad begins, ushering slaves to freedom in the northern states
1860-1865: Civil War
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Late 1800’s: Immigration and the Industrial Revolution
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1914-1918: World War I
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1920’s: The Roaring 20’s
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October 1929: Stock Market Crash leads to Great Depression
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What leads a country out of depression?
War.December 7,
1941: “A date which
will live in infamy.” The Japanese attack Pearl
Harbor and America enters WWII.
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1945: WWII ends
1957: Korea
1961-1970:Vietnam
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Allen GinsbergThe BeatlesLed ZeppelinPeter, Paul & MaryJanis JoplinThe DoorsThe Rolling StonesThe Beach BoysJack KerouacHunter S. ThompsonTom Wolfe
1960’s: Poets of a Generation
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1969: The Summer of LoveWoodstock
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1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy1963: Lyndon Baynes Johnson1968: Richard Millhouse Nixon1973: Gerald R. Ford1976: James Earl (Jimmy) Carter1980: Ronald Reagan1988: George Herbert Walker Bush1992: William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton2000: George Walker Bush2008: Barack Hussein Obama
Know Your Presidents:
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September 11, 2001
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War Global Warming Recession
Unemployment Loss of natural resources
Overpopulation Drought Famine Disease Contamination
Is there a bright lining to these dark clouds?
The 2000’s and beyond…
What does the future hold?
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How will you:Feed yourself?Clothe yourself?Provide shelter for yourself?Support yourself?Educate yourself?Participate in the world around you?Sustain democracy?Find happiness?
What do you think? Where’s the hope?
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth
of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you wish to see in the world.-Mahatma Gandhi
Deep thoughts:
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The End!