Romantic Background

President Jefferson's Lewis & Clark expedition to learn what was west of the Mississippi was called

• Manifest Destiny

• The People's President

• Trail of Tears

• Corps of Discovery

Choose the best example of a Romantic Painting

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Romantics believe social classes allow individuals to prove they are sophicated.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Nationalism

• allows people to escape the industrial cities

• celebrates a country's life and history

• promotes everyday heroes

• eliminates social classess

Romantics feel that God is found in...

• exotic churches

• the supernatural

• nature

• poetry

Explored conflicts between good & evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness

• Folklore

  Writers

• Fireside

  Poets

• Dark

  Romantics

• Transcendentalists

Wanted to reveal the beauty of the land and its everyday heroes

• Folklore

  Writers

• Fireside

  Poets

• Dark

  Romantics

• Transcendentalists

Optimistic - everything is a reflection of the Divine Soul

 (man, nature, God) literary & philosophical movement

• Folklore

  Writers

• Fireside

  Poets

• Dark

  Romantics

• Transcendentalists

Wanted to be viewed as sophisticated - stayed with English themes, meter, imagery with American settings & subjects

• Folklore

  Writers

• Fireside

  Poets

• Dark

  Romantics

• Transcendentalists

A common value that all romantics held, no matter which category they were in was...

• optimism

• progress

• anti-slavery

• education