American independence was inevitable, but victory in the American Revolution was not. The American colonies were filling up quickly and building a distinctly American culture. After the French were expelled from the West and Canada, the American colonists did not “need” the British any more.
The Republican Party platform stated that slavery would not be allowed to spread any further into the territories. The Republicans also promised to support tariffs that protected Northern industry, a Homestead Act granting free farmland in the West to settlers, and the funding of a transcontinental railroad.
In the baroque period
(and even today) operas began with the overture. It was an instrumental
introduction to the opera. Eventually, these were separated from the opera in
Romantic era and led to the creation/birth of the orchestra <span> and orchestral music such as symphonic poems,
whom composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn began to use the term to refer
to independent, self-existing instrumental, programmatic works.</span>
