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Ch. 15 Essay #4

American achievement in the sciences differed from those in the arts, in that the arts were more successful. Early America saw a huge influx of writers and poets, all influential to present day America, and all easily recognizable by thousands of ordinary people. America in the mid 1800’s was a boiling pot of new religious, industrial, and artistic reforms. With the massive amounts of immigrants that the industrial revolution brought in, new views and perceptions were added to the country’s population. Many of these people, along with Americans themselves, would become famous writers and rack in some of the most influential pieces of their time. This includes Washington Irving, an American author who was responsible for

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