1. Transcendentalists
Standard 8.50

2. believed in the power of the individual
Transcendentalism
believed in the power of the individual

3. Transcendentalism Supported women's rights, abolition, and education.
Criticized government, organized religion, laws, social institutions, and the spread of industrialization.

4. Transcendentalism imagination > reason creativity > theory
action > contemplation

6. Ralph Waldo Emerson
follow your own beliefs
self reliance

7. Time Out
“Nature”
“Self Reliance”

8. Henry David Thoreau reliance on yourself instead of others
-civil disobedience
  refusal to obey a law using a nonviolent protest

9. Time Out
“Walden”
“Civil Disobedience”

10. Transcendentalists
Louisa May Alcott-family friends with Emerson and Thoreau.
Wrote Little Women

11. Little Women
Four March sisters who live with their mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War

12. Romanticism
wanting to break free from the strict religious traditions of early America
Focus on:
-individualism
-natural world is good
-society filled with corruption

13. Nathaniel Hawthorne
-stories set in New England -Puritan inspiration -part of the Romantic movement

14. The Scarlett Letter Set in Boston during the years 1642 to 1649
Themes of legalism (following laws), sin, and guilt.

15. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1st American to translate Dante’s Inferno
Known for his poems
Two most famous :
-The Song of Hiawatha
-“Paul Revere’s Ride”