Noah Brown COT Essay

Between the eighteenth and twentieth century, many different aspects of western society changed by an immense amount. The significance of this is that things such as Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and the steam train, have revolutionized society today. Through many different wars and revolutions, politics in this time period changed, especially in France and in the United States. Many outlooks on society also changed during this period, such as the emancipation of slavery. New ideas also spread, such as new steam engines, and new philosophies.
The change over time during this period concerning politics is significant because there was a drastic change in the way government functioned that differed greatly from other time periods. In 1776, the American Revolution made America a free nation, as opposed to being under European rule, and in 1789, George Washington became President of the United States, beginning a new era in history. 1789 also marked the time when the French Revolution began, and after it ended in 1815, the old French government no longer existed, and instead a new, fully redressed government stood in it's place. England, during the year of 1832, had made the Reform Bill of 1832, and in 1861 the American Civil War began. In 1870 through 1879, the third French Republic was instituted.
In this time period, intellect became more than just mere philosophy, and extended towards creating industrialized modes of transportation. The start of the Industrial Revolution began with the steam train, created in Europe in 1770, and some years later, in 1820, industrialization entered the United States. In 1859, Darwin revolutionized man's view on religion and how we perceive our own being by writing his origin of species, and introducing the Law of Natural Selection.
Society also changed in many ways during this period. Between 1730 and 1850, population boomed in the west because of the Industrial Revolution and the new found methods of harvesting food. In 1863, at the end of the American Civil War, slavery in the United States was emancipated. The emancipation of slavery is an incredibly major fact in this time period seeing as it was the abolition of a long lasting method of work in the west.
Although so much changed during this time period, something that did not change was the aesthetical view of art and poetry. This may not have been changed because it was something not necessarily new, or exciting.