Romanticism

Question 1

1776

Answer 1

Americans declared their independence

Question 2

1787

Answer 2

establishment of society for effecting the abolition of slave trade

Question 3

1789

Answer 3

storming of the Bastille, start French Revolution

Question 4

1807

Answer 4

British slave trade outlawed

Question 5

1811-1820

Answer 5

the Regency - George, prince of Wales, acts has regent for George III who has been declared incurably insane

Question 6

1815

Answer 6

end of the war and nation’s workforce was enlarged by demobilized troops

Question 7

1819

Answer 7

Peterloo massacre

Question 8

1820

Answer 8

accession of George IV

Question 9

1830

Answer 9

accession of William IV

Question 10

1832

Answer 10

passage of reform act in parliament, Reform bill

Question 11

1833

Answer 11

long-postponed emancipation of slave population of the West-Indies, parliament finally ended slavery

Question 12

the revival of the medieval genre of romance

Answer 12

• tales of chivalry, love and adventure
• visionary imagination rather than classical forms
• irrationality

Question 13

the French revolution & the political effects in Britain

Answer 13

• people want liberty -> years of extreme violence, start killing the king, the nobility and then each other -> betrayal
• Napoleon
• existential threat in Britain (counter-revolution and radical thought of some people)

Question 14

the industrial revolution

Answer 14

• mechanisation through technological inventions (invention of steam)
• dramatic social consequences (demographic shifts, emerge of working class)

Question 15

enclosure

Answer 15

traditional agricultural culture is destroyed by the enclosure -> agricultural households migrate to city

Question 16

laissez-faire

Answer 16

minimal government interference in economy

Question 17

luddites

Answer 17

destroyed machines, against technology, used to be weavers but now out of jobs

Question 18

bluestockings

Answer 18

women, belonging to the nobility, who start organizing saloons to talk about things -> self-eductaed women who claims position in society

Question 19

ango-french war

Answer 19

dispute over colonial possessions in North-America

Question 20

reform bill

Answer 20

• end of romanticism
• end of the so-called rotten boroughs and include industrial cities (such as Manchester) in parliamentary representation