Puritans - English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices., First Nations - The Indigenous peoples who first inhabited a certain area., Jamestown - The first English colony in North America., Romanticism - Literary and artistic movement which can be seen as a rejection of Classicism - it emphasisez the individual, the subjective, the imaginative and the emotional., Realism - Literary and artistic movement which depicts its subjects truthfully without idealisation., Naturalism - A form of realism which emphasises determinism - it also focuses on social commentary., Transcendentalism - The belief that society and its institutions (mainly organized religion and political parties) corrupt the purity of the individual., Local Color - A style of writing depicting the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its people., Lost Generation - A group of authors who were in early adulthood during WWI - particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s., Beat Generation - Social and literary movement focusing on bohemian lifestyle, rejection of conformity., American Dream - The belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success., Harlem Renaissance - Intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theatre, politics and scholarship., Civil War - A conflict betweet the Union and the Confederacy., Cold War - A period of geopolitical tension between the USA and the Soviet Union and their respective allies., Great Depression - The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the USA and the modern industrial economy.,

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