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American Romanticism 1800–1860

American Romanticism 1800–1860. Feature Menu. Rise of American Romanticism. Reaction Against Rationalis m. Cities filled with poor living conditions and disease. Value placed on nature and exotic settings. Characteristic Romantic journey to the countryside, away from city.

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American Romanticism 1800–1860

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  1. American Romanticism1800–1860 Feature Menu

  2. Rise of American Romanticism Reaction Against Rationalism • Cities filled with poor living conditions and disease • Value placed on nature and exotic settings • Characteristic Romantic journey to the countryside, away from city

  3. Rise of American Romanticism Characteristics of Romanticism you need to know: • Valued feelings and intuition over reason • Found beauty in exotic locales and supernatural • Poetry highest expression of imagination

  4. Rise of American Romanticism Romantic Heroes • Frontier life idealized in novels • Typical Romantic hero youthful, innocent intuitive, close to nature • James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo is the first American heroic figure

  5. Rise of American Romanticism Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier • Wrote about American settings and subject matter using traditional styles and forms • Very popular—families read their poems at family firesides for entertainment Oliver Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell

  6. The Louisiana Purchase Westward Expansion The United States • gained all land between Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains • paid about four cents an acre for the land • immediately doubled in size Louisiana Purchase “Oh Susanna! Polka”

  7. The Louisiana Purchase Westward Expansion • Louisiana purchase launched 100 years of westward expansion. • President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore western territory. • More people moved into frontier areas.

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