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1 Nationalism & Sectionalism in art, literature & language
Goal 2—2.02

2 Noah Webster Created the American Dictionary

3 Transcendentalism Literary & philosophical movement that focused on:
Living a simple life Communing with nature Human dignity & imagination Opposed slavery Did not trust organized religion

4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalist writer

5 Henry David Thoreau Transcendentalist writer
Lived in solitude at Walden Pond Practiced Civil Disobedience by not paying his taxes during the Mexican War

6 Washington Irving American short story writer
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “Rip Van Winkle” Wrote about New England / Hudson River area

7 Edgar Allan Poe American romantic novelist/poet Tell Tale Heart
The Raven

8 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

9 James Fennimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans Leatherstocking Tales Wrote about the American Frontier

10 Neoclassical Architecture
Example of American Renaissance Architecture American Style

11 Hudson River School of Art
Painted the beauty of the American landscape

12 Alex de Tocqueville—French Writer
Studied American democracy Was outraged by the American prison system


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