The Lost Generation

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• The Lost Generation

  • The Lost Generation was a group of writers and artists, including many expatriates, who helped define a larger, modernist movement after World War I.
  • The term "Lost Generation" first appeared in Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, which centers on a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s and epitomizes the lifestyle and mindset of the post-war expatriate generation.
  • You are a lost generation."
  • The “Lost Generation” was greatly influenced by the First World War.
  • Eliot was an important figure among the "Lost Generation" movement of writers.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • In literature, two popular movements or groups of writers arose: The Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance.
  • The Lost Generation were young people who came out of World War I disillusioned and cynical about the world.
  • Rebellious, middle-class women, labeled "flappers" by older generations, did away with the corset and donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms.
  • With this exposure women in the 1920s began staking claim to their own bodies and took part in a sexual liberation of their generation, which also extended to their minds in the form of progressive thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and the expansion of co-educational programs in which women took places at state colleges and universities alongside men.
  • Scott Fitzgerald, a member of the Lost Generation literary movement, wrote The Great Gatsby, which epitomized Roaring Twenties culture.

• Sectionalism and the New South

  • The Legend of the Lost Cause began as mostly a literary expression of the despair of a bitter, defeated people over a lost identity.
  • Historians, including Gaines Foster, generally agree that the Lost Cause narrative also "helped preserve white supremacy".
  • The term Lost Cause first appeared in the title of an 1866 book by the historian Edward A.
  • Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates.
  • However, it was the articles written by General Jubal A.

• The Battle of Chancellorsville

  • The Confederate Army won at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but lost many troops, including General "Stonewall" Jackson.
  • The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E.
  • The victory was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lieutenant General Thomas J.
  • Just as seriously, he lost his most aggressive field commander, Stonewall Jackson.
  • The stand was brief, as the Confederates smashed through and continued to roll up the Eleventh Corps (under the command of General Oliver O.

• Depression Politics

  • It was accompanied by violence; the miners lost and many moved toward the Populist party.
  • The Democrats lost 125 seats in the election while the Republicans gained 130 seats.
  • The Populist Party ran candidates in the South and Midwest, but generally lost ground, outside Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas where state-level fusion with the Republicans was successful despite Populist and Republican antagonism at the national level.
  • Democrat William Jennings Bryan lost the Senate race in Nebraska, but came back to win the 1896 presidential nomination.
  • He lost, as did Bryan every time.

• The Beats

  • The term Beatnik was coined to represent the Beat Generation, and referred to the name of the recent Russian satellite, Sputnik, and the Beat Generation.
  • Kerouac feared that the spiritual aspect of his message had been lost and that many were using the Beat Generation as an excuse to be senselessly wild.
  • In 1982, Ginsberg published a summary of the essential effects of the Beat Generation:
  • Allen Ginsberg, one of the main authors in the Beat Generation, with Bob Dylan in 1975.
  • The Beat generation was characterized as beatnik in mainstream society.

• Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

  • In the summer of 1776, General William Howe and 30,000 British troops attacked and defeated General George Washington's Continental forces in the Battle of Long Island.
  • News of the capture of New York was favorably received in London, and General Howe was awarded the Order of the Bath for his work.
  • The victory also drew General Charles Cornwallis from New York.
  • The British lost more than a quarter of their forces in the battle and convinced General Howe to withdraw most of his army from New Jersey, with only outposts at New Brunswick and Perth Amboy remaining.
  • Though the Americans suffered significant casualties and lost important supplies, Washington retained the core of his army and had successfully retaken most of the state from the British.

• Washington's Escape from New York

  • A series of battles for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey between British forces under General William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington occurred in 1776 and the winter months of 1777.
  • General Howe then began to lay siege to the works, but Washington skillfully managed a nighttime retreat through his unguarded rear across the East River to Manhattan Island.
  • The British lost more than one quarter of their force in the battle, and American morale rose with the victory.
  • The defeats convinced General Howe to withdraw most of his army from New Jersey, only leaving outposts at New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.
  • The Americans suffered significant casualties and lost important supplies, but Washington managed to retain the core of his army and avoid a decisive confrontation that could have ended the war.

• The Battle of Fredericksburg

  • In November 1862, President Abraham Lincoln needed to demonstrate the success of the Union war effort before the Northern public lost confidence in his administration.
  • He replaced Major General Don Carlos Buell with Major General William S.
  • Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside.
  • On December 13, the "grand division" of Major General William B.
  • Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Major Generals Edwin V.

• The Election of 1840

  • In the wake of the Panic of 1837, William Henry Harrison won the Election of 1840 with his "log cabin campaign" appeal to ordinary people.
  • It opened in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on December 4, 1839, almost a full year before the general election.
  • The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election; Winfield Scott, another general and a hero of the War of 1812 who was active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838; and Henry Clay, the Whigs' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.
  • Few Americans were surprised when Van Buren lost by an electoral college vote of 234 to 60, but many were amazed by the close popular vote.
  • Of 2,400,000 votes cast, Van Buren lost by only 147,000.