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Renaisance to Revolution: American Revolution

The Renaissance was a period of great social, intellectual, political, and financial upheaval following the Middle Ages. Particularly evolving from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of traditional thinking, writing and art.

The worst time in the history of American scholars, the American Renaissance (1830-1865) formed Allan Poe, Henry David, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Edgar and Emily Dickinson. Graduations are usually made between so-called light or hope-makers (Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman) and those who are dull or with melancholy (Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville), and Emily Dickinson, who covers the center, between light and light. dim. Hope-giving studies included the natural beauty of nature, the assertions of the afterlife in the aftermath of the real world, the power of positive creative ideas, and the divine nature expected of everyone. 

Critical issues included victims, senseless or criminal driving power, uncertainty, and impartiality. Americans have explored these topics with extraordinary power often because of the legacy of the Puritan country. The Calvinist clergy from John Cotton to Jonathan Edwards were devoted to examining extremist questions about the existence, nature, and nature of man. Whenever this magical drive into the nineteenth-century suspicion and patriotism, the result was a transition from motivation to distress, from Emerson’s certification to the incomprehensibility of Hawthorne and Melville. 

American creators are strongly influenced by unconventional writing, from the ancients to the Sentimental peoples. This international influence is intertwined with the styles and expressions of a common society that originated mainly that of the Americas, distinguished between traditional, unusual and entertaining or entertaining household chores. Incorporating articles and images from this diverse community, key creators highlighted in their work the challenges of a world that have developed both independence and co-operation, enhancing opportunity but enduring the conquest of property, the same taught yet exaggerated class divisions and mistreatment. women, blacks, and Local Americans. These persecuted gangs formed his invisible organization that was once overlooked but expected a critical place in the American party.

Colonization of America in the 1600s:

The famous European explorers came from England, Spain, Italy, Portugal and France – Refer to the French in America and the Spanish in America. The other reasons were as follows: Increased Power in Europe

Prestige, Wealth – gold, silver, spices and the raw materials of new lands, Opportunities for trade

Spreading the Christian Religion – refers to Religion in the Colonies. The first era of American colonization that was largely embarked by France and England and to a lesser extent by Sweden and Netherlands, was observed in the 1600s. 

Social Effects:

Identity of “American”- individualism; diversity

  • No lordly titles of sovereignty
  • Social mobility
  • migration to westward urged
  • the church and state estrangement
  • Issues contemplating the rights of women and slavery prolonged
  • the demand for education increased

The Federal System:

Like Montesquieu, the delegates distrusted a powerful central government controlled by one person or group. This setup provided a built-in system of checks and balances, with each branch checking the actions of the other two. For example, the president received the power to veto legislation passed by Congress. How Congress could override a presidential veto with the approval of two-thirds of its members.

Conclusion:

The term “American Renaissance” was first coined by author F.O. Matthiessen, in his book “American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman”.The American Renaissance takes an important connection between art and politics, realizing that one can lie to the other, but, at the same time, puts politics under aesthetics in a way that effectively denies political discourse — indeed, in anything other than major works of text — its fictional or functional integrity.

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