Key Events Of The Romantic Era

Romanticism era begin in the late 18th century. Men felt a deepened concern for the metaphysical problems of existence, death, and eternity. It was at that moment when romanticism was born. It originated in Europe, yet was also in the United States. It was incorporated in strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. Of the many issues in the romantic era, slavery was the largest. When artistes would publish work, it would be all about slavery and talking down on it, for that was the hot topic in the romantic era and they knew it would sell.
The first major poem to attack slavery was “The Dying Negro” by Thomas Day. His poem went into depth about African Americans not having anything and wouldn’t amount to anything. Between the years 1785 and 1795 plenty of poems,
There were many big events that took place in the romantic era. There was a big war between USA and Britain, today it is known as the war of 1812. Some of the issues that caused this war were British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. The war’s outcome boosted a national self-confidence and encouraged the growing spirit of American expansionism that would shape the better part of the 19th century. The impeachment of Warren Hastings was another major event as well. Another big issue was the spread of the Industrial Revolution from England to the Continent, it forced a large economic change and racial. The romantic era was a very important time for the British Empire, especially with their expansion. In this time period in Britain life was very hard. People who had jobs were getting replaced with machines, so they were getting laid off. As a result in people getting fired they would try and move to the city, yet the cities became to get very over crowded. Many of the people that were living in the city were very poor and out of work. With