1、The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War.Historically, it was the time of westward expansion.(The western boundary and reached to the Pacific by 1860;the number of its states had increased from the original thirteen at the time its independence
2、to twenty-one by the middle of the 19th century; its total population increased from four million people in 1970 to thirty million in 1860.)这一时期也是美国历史上西部扩张时期，到1860年领土已开括到太平洋西岸。到十九世纪中叶，美国已由原来的十三个州扩大到二十一个州，人口从1790年的四百万增至1860年的三千万。Economically, the whole nation was experiencing an industrial transforma
3、tion, which affected the rural as well as the urban life. In addition, the sudden influx of immigration gave a big push to the already booming industry. 在经济上，年轻的美国经历向工业的转化，影响所及不仅仅是城市，而且也包括农村。蒸汽机动力在工、农业生产上的运用，工厂的建立，劳动力的大量需求以及科技上的发明创造使经济生活得到了重组。另外，大量移民促进了工业更加蓬勃的发展。Politically, democracy and equality became the ideal of the new nation, and the two-party system came into being.政治上，民主与平等成为这个年轻国家的理想，产生了两党制。Practical inventions, science and technology education, literacy, rose improvements in the printing press, the postal service, facilitated, the circulation of newspapers and magazines.
