History
Transcendentalism grew as a response to this world-wide shift in labor.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
His early life focused on studying in order to follow this career.
What is the ministry?
True or False: Transcendentalists believed you could find beauty in the ordinary.
True
Were Transcendentalists individualists or collectivists
individualists
This tenet focuses on rejecting the cultural norm.
Individualism
True or False: Transcendentalists rejected the idea of organized religion, but were still spiritual.
True
RWE's literary focus emphasized that "our age" should not look...
Transcendentalists think that humans were inherently...
What is "Good"?
The two Transcendental communes in Massachusetts were...
What are Brook Farm and The Fruitlands?
The tenet tells us that "all creation is united" and that this is the best route to transcend.
Nature or Love for Nature
The "father of American literature"
RWE's description of his perfect joy in crossing a muddy field in the winter is an example of...
RWE claims that "to be great is to be misunderstood." What figures from history does he use to illustrate this idea? (name two)
What are Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton?
Many of the Transcendentalists came from this class that allowed them to step back from more mundane ways of living.
What is the privileged class?
This tenet revolved around getting rid of material possessions to live or living off the land.
Self Reliance
This literary movement provided the basic foundation for Transcendentalism.
What is the Romanticism movement?
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his most famous work called "__________".
"Nature"
When feeling completely at one with Nature, RWE describes himself as this.
What is a transparent eyeball?
The most well known woman Transcendentalist was...
What was Margaret Fuller?
This tenet tells you to trust in yourself and your ideas.
Trust of intuition
Romanticism and its offshoot, Transcendentalism, grew as a reaction to what prior literary movement?
What is Rationalism?
Emerson believed that ________ was not an individual experience and that each individual needed to find it for themselves in nature.
religion
The purpose of Transcendentalism is to ...?
What is transcend the ordinary in order to be closer to the divine and each other?
Miranda is a character created by Margaret Fuller in order to...
What is illustrate what a free thinking and self-reliant woman is able to do in a way that did not threaten men because she was "fictional"?
This tenet believes the only way to truly understand yourself, you need practice your own...
What is free will?