1. Transcendentalism The American Renaissance

3. Conformity 1.Similarity in form or character; agreement: I acted in conformity with my principles. 2. Action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws: conformity to university regulations.

5. Assimilate 3. To make similar; cause to resemble.

7. What’s the difference between conformity and assimilation?

9. What Did Transcendentalist Believe in?

10. Importance and efficacy of human striving...

11. ... opposed to the bleaker Puritan picture of complete and inescapable human depravity.

12. Emphasized the unity of God...

13. ... instead of the “Trinity” of God.

14. 3 Reasons to Rebel

15. Who were the people that founded America?

17. Who were the people that governed America through the 1700’s?

19. Who were the people that created art in the 1700’s?

21. What Revolution Took Place in Europe and American in the 1780’s-1890’s?

23. What Did the Industrial Revolution Threaten?

25. What was Manifest Destiny?

29. The Movement

30. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each individual find, in Emerson's words, “an original relation to the universe” (O, 3).

31. Transcendentalists rebelled against popular notions of government and institutions because these entities sought to control the minds and lives of individuals.

32. Important Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson Began questioning his beliefs when the industrial revolution had shown that machines could replace people and the individual did not matter.

33. Important Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau To protest slavery and the Mexican War, he refused to pay taxes and spent one night in prison.

34. Important Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott Believed students should not be taught through routine memorization, but instead be challenged to think, debate and discuss.

35. Individual vs. Institution

36. Conformist or Transcendentalist?

37. Fashion

46. Art

54. Political & Social

59. Music

62. How do we Identify Transcendentalist Writing? The power of the human mind. The oneness of humans with nature. A nonconforming-type statement or message.