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Times are Changin’…

Times are Changin’…. Make a list of what you remember about the Puritans and the Rationalists? Puritans People are evil Only some will be saved Focus on the Bible and salvation in writing Rationalists People are good and perfectible through reason

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Times are Changin’…

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  1. Times are Changin’… Make a list of what you remember about the Puritans and the Rationalists? Puritans People are evil Only some will be saved Focus on the Bible and salvation in writing Rationalists People are good and perfectible through reason We worship God best by helping one another Writing was usually secular What was Franklin’s attitude about the city? A place to carve one’s way What kind of person was the self-made man? Well read/Educated--exposed to many different kinds of literature and up on the times City Dweller--city as a place of opportunity Sophisticated--marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel

  2. Living Conditions Tenant buildings A bathtub might be shared by 400 families 8+ people live in one room In the streets Dead Horses and poop 20,000 homeless children Worked in sweatshops Sold toothpicks or newspapers Most died of accident, disease, exposure, violence, and starvation before their 20th birthday Because of these living conditions attitudes towards cities changed. To Franklin and the other Rationalists the city was a place to find success and self-realization--a place where he could be himself.

  3. 1800-1860 Romanticism

  4. What is Romanticism? Not an organized system but an attitude A reaction against the literary period before (Enlightenment)

  5. What do Romantics believe? N.I.I. or The Greater than statements (>) Intuition > Reason (> means greater than) Intuition-our capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through our emotions rather than through our reasoning abilities Nature > City Nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development Contemplating the natural world until dull realities fell away to reveal underlying beauty and truth Individual > Group

  6. Who are the Romantic Poets? The Fireside Poets stayed very close to traditional European form Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Oliver Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell William Cullen Bryant was also a poet, but not included in the Fireside Poet group.

  7. Who are the Romantic Novelists? Novelist instead focused on very American themes such as heading west. They believed that America’s unsettled innocence was where Virtue would be found. Novelists: Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper

  8. A New American Hero Romantic hero are usually identified by exhibiting these traits 1. Young 2. Pure of heart 3. Morality beyond society and religion 4. Knowledge based off of intuitive understanding not formal learning 5. Avoids town life 6. Quests for some higher truth in the natural world Most often, these traits can be scene in comic book characters and Disney protagonists.

  9. Historical: Westward bound 1803: Louisiana Purchase 1804-6:Louis and Clark Expedition 1812: The War of 1812 1820: Missouri Compromise 1823: Monroe Doctrine

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