American Culture Changes

Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Thomas Cole

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• William Lloyd Garrison

Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say

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

What was one reason Irish people immigrated to America?

• they wanted a vacation

• there was a potato famine

• they didn't like Ireland

• They were forced to by the government

Americans who opposed immigration

• Patriots

• Nativists

• Know-Nothing-Party

• Tenements

What was the main religion of most Irish?

• Catholicism

• Judaism

• Islam

• Protestantism

What were Pull Factors for coming to America

• Abundant Land

• Freedom

• Industrial Revolution

• Religious Persecution

• Economic Opportunity

What were Push Factors for coming to America

• Abundant Land

• Freedom

• Industrial Revolution

• Religious Persecution

• Economic Opportunity

Why was agricultural advancements considered a push factor?

• Tractors were not trustworthy and dangerous

• Life became mundane and more difficult

• New tools replaced human labor

• New tools led to famines