Transcendentalism Introduction

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Region of the United States where Transcendentalist writers mainly lived.

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New England

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What decade do we associate with the beginning of Transcendentalism?

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1830s

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Transcendentalist beliefs about God

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They believed people didn't have to follow the rules of organized religion to connect to God.

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Transcendentalist beliefs about how people should act.

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A person must strive to be a fully unique individual.

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Who wrote "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?

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Walt Whitman

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Oversoul

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A divine spirit supposed to pervade the universe and to encompass all human souls.

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What term refers to "the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning"?

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intuition

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Which term means "to rise above or beyond; exceed"?

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transcend