Describe the literary and cultural life of the period including the widespread trend towards realism

Darwinism lead to widespread trend towards realism.

Explanation:

After Civil War new trend came in US during 1800 The people started to focus on realism. Romanticism as well as optimism ended. The questions that was asked previously the answer was given in a religious way but after the Civil War people now mainly focused on realism , they tried to get answer in a scientific way.

Literature played huge role , people tried to connect things with literature so that it becomes realistic. Now they stopped believing the fact that God always has a plan whatever he does its always good but now people mainly tried to find the cause in a more scientific way.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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