THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)
CULTURAL TRENDS
Birth of Romanticism
Distrust in progress and factories
Use of imagination as a reaction to the age of industry
Exaltation of the indivdual and of the self
Reaction to Classicism
POLITICAL TRENDS
Age of Revolution and War
General attitude of revolt against outworn traditions and attitudes
EXAMPLES
The Boston Tea Party: political protest against Britai for "taxatation withouth representation"
SOCIAL TRENDS
Industrial Revolution
Social Reforms
Quick turn form an agricoltural economy to an industrial one
Availability of raw materials from the colonies
New inventions
Increasing industrial production
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCE
James Hargreaves' spinning jenny
James Watt's steam engine
hardship among the working class: lonh hours of work; increased unemployment and drop of wages
air and water pollution
Abolition of slavery
The Factory Act 1833
The Amendment of Poor Law 1834
improvement of conditions for children working in the factories
William Wilberforce campaigned against slaery and the slave trade was abolished in 1807
The Poor Law (1815) obliged parishes to help the poor and the unemployed
The Reform Act 1832
In 1833 The Slavery Abolition Act was approved for the freedom of all slaves
With The Amendment of the Poor Law parishes were no obliged to offer financial help to poor
The French Revolution against the old social order