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During the 19th century, an age of change was in place. It was known as romanticism. The movement began in Europe but it quickly moved to the rest the United States. The concept of romanticism stressed emotion, the imagination of man, and the subjectivity of approach. Although the movement of romanticism was already in place at the time, most Americans knew it as Transcendentalism. This movement contrasted the views of the 19th century population. The transcendentalist movement rejected mainly the puritan religion. This rejection hit the puritans harshly since they had already lost so many believers to the Great Awakening and now the rejection by the intellectual bulk of the American society suppressed the puritan religion even further. Another view that started in the 19th century is the faith in reason. The movement of transcendentalism enforced this view along with the faith in common sense. Transcendentalism really affected many views of the old world. This was particularly true in the rejection of order, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality embodied in the classicism. These rejections in a system that had been around