American Transcendentalism

Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Thomas Cole

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• William Lloyd Garrison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Popular essayist and author
*Promoted individualism and self-reliance
*Works included "Nature" and "The American Scholar"
Which movement did Emerson lead?

• Temperance

• Abolition 

• Second Great Awakening

• Transcendentalism

Which movement did Emerson lead?

• Prohibition

• Transcendentalism

• Education Reform

• Labor Reform

A big characteristic about Henry David Thoreau is his beliefs in:

• Communism.

• Capitalism.

• Spiritism.

• Transcendentalism.

Who is associated with transcendentalism?

• Washington

• Thoreau

• Grant

• Lee

American Transcendentalists did NOT like which of the following?

• Nature

• Independence

• Slavery

• Non Conformity

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