<p>some of the harder questions on the ap exam are the literature questions, like who wrote what book and what effect it had on society. Let’s start a list of authors and there effects on society! ill start:</p>
<p>Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring - influential book that helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among American people</p>
<p>reply another author/ the book/ and significance in a reply message!</p>
<p>Upton Sinclair–The Jungle. About terrible working conditions in meat-packing factories. Originally written to further his socialist agenda, but the public disgust following publication led to T. Roosevelt’s passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.</p>
<p>The Jungle/Upton Sinclair/portrayed nastiness of factories (especially meat) to middle class and called for reform of these plants that handled food. Began era of Progessive attitudes</p>
<p>Thomas Paine: Common Sense: Pushed America towards independence</p>
<p>Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published in the 1960s and it was a reaction against the traditional ideas about women in the home and socially accepted roles of women. It helped spurr the women’s rights movement.</p>
<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: inflammed national tensions over slavery issue. Banned in much of the south, but selling many copies in the north and throughout parts of europe.</p>
<p>Uncle Tom’s Cabin* :)</p>
<p>Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass cuz he’s a sex freak</p>
<p>Federalist papers: Hamilton, Madison, Jay. To gain support for the proposed constitution (strong central gov.)</p>
<p>Henry George: Progress and Poverty: Advocated one single tax on land to redistribute wealth for greater social and economic justice. (1879)</p>
<p>someone talk about ernest hemingway and walt whitman cuz i need some help on their books</p>
<p>Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass.(I know already mentioned) but detailed the importance of individualism</p>
<p>Kipling: White Mans burden, help underprivileged, underfed and underclad.</p>
<p>Jacob A. Riis: “How the other half lives”. Expose the disease and dirt of slums to improve. Progressive era. (also a photographer)</p>
<p>Lincoln Steffens: “Shame of the Cities”
Ida Tarbell: “A History on Standard Oil”</p>
<p>Finished up the muckrakers. (Already mentioned Riis and Sinclair).</p>
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby; epitomized the essence of the Roaring 20’s decade.
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises; Guys get drunk and party all day. Roaring 20’s “I-just-want-to-have-fun” attitude.</p>
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<p>William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator
I think basically a magazine that had to do with his views on African Americans…he was anti-slavery, pro-women n all that jazz
um…Helen Hunt Jackson wrote A Century of Dishonor about (correct me if I’m wrong) American Indians
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
about Okies and the dust bowl conditions
…Thoreau “On Civil Disobedience”…later influenced Gandhi (ok not APUSH) and MLK Jr.</p>
<p>all I can think of right now…=)</p>
<p>Henry D. Thoreau - Civil Disobedience</p>
<p>Not only does it relate to the transcendental literary period, but it also was a huge inspiration for MLK Jr. and the civil rights movement.</p>
<p>As acacia pointed out, Helen Hunt Jackson’s “A Century of Dishonor.” I believe it showed up on last year’s APUSH exam when I took it and possibly the year before that. Maybe I’m wrong.</p>