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from Polson High School <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs"> Michael L. Umphrey website</a> <h2 class="title">Overview of American Romanticism Study guide for final exam</h2> By Michael L Umphrey American Romanticism 1800 - 1860 Pages 136-405 You should be able to discuss how major events reflected the times, and how they shaped the way people understood the world they lived in. Slavery <blockquote>The Missouri Compromise, 1820-21 The Underground Railroad, c 1830 Republican Party organized to oppose slavery, 1854 Dred Scott decision, U.S. Supreme Court, 1854</blockquote> Technology and Industry <blockquote>The cotton gin, 1794 The Erie Canal connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, 1825</blockquote> Sense of Nation <blockquote>The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838 US annexes Texas (1845), Mexican War, 1846-48 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858</blockquote> Sense of Society <blockquote>Irish Potato Famine and Irish immigration, 1846 California Gold Rush, 1849</blockquote> Sense of the World <blockquote>The War of 1812, leading to the British burning Washington, D.C., 1814 Through the Treaty of Nanking, Hong Kong is opened to foreign trade, 1842 British government takes over administration of India, 1858 Commodore Perry opens Japanese ports to U.S. trade, 1854</blockquote> Major Writers You should be acquainted with the following writers <blockquote>William Cullen Bryant Edgar Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman </blockquote> <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs/overview_of_american_romanticism1/">Overview of American Romanticism</a> sent from Michael L. Umphrey's website