Transcendentalists
He wrote the Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Author of Leaves of Grass, he was the "Poet Laureate of Democracy
Walt Whitman
The "inner ________" believed by Transcendentalists to lead to truth.
Light
This Secretary of the Navy helped found the Naval Academy at Annapolis and is known as the "Father of American History.
George Bancroft
This female Transcendentalist edited The Dial
Margaret Fuller
He wrote The Raven and specialized in the macabre
Edgar Allen Poe
This term refers to the idea that people should follow their own path
Individualism
This historian, who had lost the use of an eye in college, published classic accounts of the conquest of Mexico and Peru.
William H. Prescott
Emerson's 1837 speech called for literary independence.
The America Scholar
He wrote The Scarlet Letter about Puritan guilt.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This movement valued intuition and emotion over cold reason
Romanticism
Because most early historians like Bancroft and Motley were from this specific region, early American history had a distinct "pro-Northern" bias.
New England