Henry David Thoreau

How did thoreau protest against slavery?

• Hid escaping slaves in his home

• Wrote several books about slavery

• Led rallies with abolitionists

• Refused to pay poll taxes

• Horace Mann

• Henry David Thoreau

• Lyman Beecher

• Abraham Lincoln

Known for...

• abolitionism

• transcendentalism

• temperance

• suffrage

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

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

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

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

• Temperance

• Transcendentalism

• The Second Great Awakening

• Abolition

Which book by Henry David Thoreau is considered a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings?

• A) Walden

• B) Civil Disobedience

• C) The Maine Woods

• D) Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in which philosophical movement?

• A) Romanticism

• B) Transcendentalism

• C) Realism

• D) Existentialism