Colonial period(1765-1790)

Revolutionary period(1765-1790)- starting approximately a decade before the Revolutionary War and lasting around 25 years. Enlightenment thinkers and individualists were common in American history during the Revolutionary War. This was the period in which the United States declared independence from Great Britain. This was the time when men gave great speeches about loyalty and freedom, and religions spread. However, this was also a time when rights and civil liberties were being abused. This was a period of British imperialism and expansion, but also of their control over society. The Americans responded to these wrong oings by writing a powerful and influential document that changed the course of American history. This document is the Decloration of Independence.
The Revolutionary period is typically associated with writings that are politically motivated, either in support of British rule, in support of American patriotism and independence, or in support of the Constitution.
Political documents, speeches, and letters are dominating the writing at this moment.
Romantic Period(1828-1865)- was a literary movement that originated in the late 18th century and ended in the mid-nineteenth century, though its impact can still be felt today. Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to the massive changes in society that occurred during this period, including the revolutions that swept through countries like France and the United States, ushering in grand experiments in democracy. The American Romantic period, which spanned roughly from 1830 to 1870, was a period of fast expansion and growth in the United States that fuelled literary intuition, imagination, and individualism. America was still very young in 1830, only fifty years after the Revolutionary War, but its citizens were eager to forge their own identity that was uniquely American and not so reliant on European values. As a result, the American Romantic movement questioned the very rational thinking that was prevalent during the Revolutionary War's Age of Reason. There were fewer instructional texts produced during this time period, but there were more stories, novels, and poetry. There are five characteristics that can be found in these stories, novels, and poems that can be used to identify American Romantic literature. They are as follows:
Imagination
Individuality
Nature as a source of spirituality
Looking to the past for wisdom
Seeing the common man as a hero
Romanticism gave birth to some of America's greatest writers, including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau, as well as some of American literature's masterpieces, including Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter. Despite differences in genre and content, each work was a rebellion against formalism and an exploration of individualism, the self, and national perception. Rather than carefully defining realistic characters through a wealth of detail, as most English or continental novelists did, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe fashioned heroic figures larger than life, brimming with mythic significance. The protagonists of the American Romance are typically haunted, alienated individuals. The lonely protagonists of Hawthorne's Arthur Dimmesdale or Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Ahab in Moby-Dick, and Poe's many isolated and obsessed characters are pitted against unknowable, dark fates that, in some mysterious way, grow out of their deepest unconscious selves. The symbolic plots reveal the anguished spirit's hidden actions.