American Culture

Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Thomas Cole

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• William Lloyd Garrison

What is the transcendentalist belief about nature?

• nature is "just there"

• nature is awe-inspiring and reflects spirituality

• nature is unstable and changes too much

• nature is the origin of evil

Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say

The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

• True

• False

Transcendentalists believed in:

• the Power of the Government

• the Power of Technology

• the Power of the Individual

• the Power of God

Led transcendentalism

Writer

Believed in Individualism

Wrote "Nature" depicting the American landscape and nature

• Thomas Cole

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• John James Audubon

Supporter of Transcendentalism.

Resisted government laws viewed as unjust by refusing to pay his poll taxes in an act of Civil Disobedience

• Thomas Cole

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• John James Audubon

Group of people that painted nature and the American landscape. Led by Thomas Cole.

• Quakers

• Federalists

• Puritans

• Hudson River School

Movement that focused on the importance of nature and resisting unjust government laws.

• Temperance

• Transcendentalism

• The Second Great Awakening

• Abolition

Published "Birds of America," arguably the most important work on Birds ever published.

• Thomas Cole

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• John James Audubon