Hawthorne’s Time Period

• ...politically

- America began growing rapidly into a

powerful nation

• What’s going on...

• ...artistically

- War of 1812 - conflicts between the US and Great Britain over US maritime rights

- Missouri Comprimise - congress “forever prohibits” slavery from all parts of the Louisiana Purchase

- The Romanticism Era

- Realism - a reaction again romanticism : represents familiar and everyday people in an unrealistic manner

• ...socially

- Slavery was replaced with segregation

- Woman still could not vote

- There was a huge increase in immigrants