Examples of American Romanticism in the following topics:
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- American Romanticism emphasized emotion, individualism, and personality over rationalism and the constraints of religion.
- Romanticism became popular in American politics, philosophy, and art.
- Transcendentalism and Romanticism appealed to Americans in a similar fashion; both privileged feeling over reason and individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom.
- Romanticism often involved a rapturous response to nature and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
- By the 1880s, however, psychological and social realism were competing with Romanticism in the novel.
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- Matthiessen), this period encompasses (approximately) the 1820s to the dawn of the Civil War, and it has been closely identified with American romanticism and transcendentalism.
- Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature.
- These American writers who questioned transcendentalism illustrate the underlying tension between individualism and conformity in American life.
- Walt Whitman was a highly influential American writer.
- His American epic, Leaves of Grass, celebrates the common person.
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- Emerson wrote in his speech The American Scholar: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
- In contrast, they were intimately familiar with the English Romantics, and the transcendental movement may be partially described as an American outgrowth of Romanticism.
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- In contrast, they were intimately familiar with the English romantics, and the transcendental movement may be partially described as an American outgrowth of romanticism.
- Fuller was an American journalist, critic, and women's-rights advocate closely associated with the movement; according to Emerson, "she represents an interesting hour and group in American cultivation."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
- Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled, "The American Scholar" in 1837.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803–April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century.
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- The first advertising to appear on American television occurred on the afternoon of July 1, 1941 when New York NBC station WNBT, now WNBC, broadcast a test pattern modified to look like a clock, with the words "Bulova Watch Time" in the lower right quadrant
- Sitcoms offered a romanticized view of middle class American life with The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966), Father Knows Best (1954–1960), and ABC's The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966) exemplifying the genre.
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- Sitcoms offered a romanticized view of middle class American life.
- At the close of World War II, both the American and Russian forces recruited or smuggled top German scientists
like Wernher von Braun to their respective countries to continue defense-related work.
- They set about assembling the captured V2s and began a program of launching them and instructing American engineers in their operation.
- American family watching TV, 1958, Evert F.
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- During the 1930s and 1940s, Klan
leaders urged members to disrupt the Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO), which advocated industrial unions and was open to African-American
members.
- In response to blunt attacks
against Jewish Americans and the Klan's campaign to outlaw private schools, the
Jewish Anti-Defamation League was formed following the lynching of Leo Frank.
- Theatrical poster for "The Birth of a Nation," the 1915 film that romanticized the Ku Klux Klan and helped inspire a renewed KKK to emerge.
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- American Indians first saw action in the Pacific Theater along with the rest of the American army and navy.
- American Indians were also among the first Americans to enter Germany and played a role in the Liberation of Berlin.
- Many military awards offered to American Indian soldiers were later used during the termination period by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as proof that American Indians were eager to assimilate into white mainstream American culture.
- The war's aftermath, says historian Allison Bernstein, marked a "new era in Indian affairs" and turned "American Indians" into "Indian Americans."
- In 1940, only 5 percent of Native Americans lived in cities.
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- The outbreak
of war in 1914 led to the "Americanization" campaign aimed at millions
of immigrants to the U.S.
- Still, the question of whether they
were politically American or still harbored loyalties to their native countries
brought about a widespread push for "Americanization" of immigrants, which
included efforts by the government and private organizations to ensure they embraced
full, long-term assimilation into American society.
- Once Americanized, workers would
embrace American influences such as industrial ideals and be less likely to
follow strike agitators or foreign propagandists.
- The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most significant private organizations working toward Americanization.
- Describe the rationale behind the "Americanization" of immigrants by the National Americanization Committee and the Committee for Immigrants in America.
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- Settlers' relations with Native Americans were difficult and fueled by conflicts over land.
- During the American Revolution, the newly proclaimed United States competed with the British for the allegiance of Native American nations east of the Mississippi River.
- The British made peace with the Americans in the Treaty of Paris (1783) , through which they ceded vast Native American territories to the United States without informing or consulting with the Native Americans.
- Native American tribes led the Northwest Indian War in an attempt to repulse American settlers.
- Describe the role of the Native American tribes in the Revolutionary War