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Romantic Age - Coggle Diagram
Romantic Age
CULTURAL TRENDS
Birth of Romanticism
Reactions to Classicism
Exaltation of the individual and of the self
Distrust in progress and factories
Use of imagination as a reaction to the age of Industry
SOCIAL TRENDS
Industrial Revolutions
Quick turn from an agricultural economy to an Industrial one
Increasing industrial production
Avabily of raw materials from the colonies
New Inventions
Hargreaves’ spinning jenny
Watt’s steam engine
Social consequences
drop of wages
rising unemployment
Social Reforms
Reform Act
Voting rights in the House of Commons for all men
The Factory Act
limits for child labor
prohibition of work for children under 9 years of age
Slavery Abolition Act
the slave trade abolished in 1833
The Poor Law
law that obliges the church to donate food to the poor
changed in 1834 as it did not encourage labour
CRITICAL TRENDS
Age of the Revolutions and war
General attitude of revolt aganist outworn traditions and attitudes
EXAMPLES
The French Revolution went against the old social order and this created an ideal of equality
the American Revolution made the 14 colonies depend on it