ROMANTIC+ERA+1800-1860

= = Edgar Allan Poe was a good man and a crazy man. His life was sad if you look his story up. There are a lot of people in his life that dide like his mom,wife,etc. A lot of his stories were because of what happened in his own life. One of his stories is, The Black Cat. In the story of the Black Cat, there is a man and he is a drunk. When he is with his wife, he controls her most of the time. In the story there is a cat and the man does not like the cat at all.

"New York more than doubled from 124,000 to 312,000 people.Tenements were buildings where a bathtub might be shared with four hundred people, where eight or more people might live in a single room without furniture, and where tenants might be ragpickers who kept their smelly stash inside their home (Elements of Literature Fifth Course pg 142)". ss

There were more than 20,000 homeless childrens living out on the streets of New York.JR (Elements of Literature Fifth Course pg 142)

In the 1820's - 1829 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, July 4,1826.(ZN) (Elements of Literature Fifth Course pg.140)

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas stage a noted series of seven debates as candidates for the lllinois seat in the U.S. senate, 1858 (Elements of Literature Fifth Course pg 141). ML

In the War of 1812, British burned much of Washington, DC. 1814. (CW)

A guitar Composer from the Romantic era. CH
 * @http://www.earlyromanticguitar.com/erg/composers.htm

U.S. population was 17.1 million in 1840. (elements of literature 5th course pg. 141) BD

some art from the romantic era. (ML)