History
Transcendentalism started in this century
This famous leader of the Transcendentalism movement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True or False: Transcendentalists believed you could find beauty in the ordinary.
True
Were Transcendentalists individualists or collectivists
This tenet focuses on rejecting the cultural norm.
Individualism
True or False: Transcendentalists rejected the idea of organized religion, but were still spiritual.
True or False: Ralph Waldo Emerson was more focused on the past than the present.
False
Did transcendentalists think that humans were inherently good or bad
What word goes with the definition: "to go above or beyond the limitations that have been imposed on you by society".
Transcend
The tenet tells us that "all creation is united and __________ the gospel of the universal soul".
Nature or Love for Nature
This leader of the Transcendentalism movement is famous for writing an essay called "Civil Disobedience" and spending the night in jail for refusing to pay taxes. He also was mentored by Emerson.
Henry David Thoreau
John Locke and Thomas Jefferson
Did transcendentalists like conformity
Many of the Transcendentalists were either attendees or professors at what university
This tenet revolved around getting rid of material possessions to live or living off the land.
Self Reliance
What movement was Transcendentalism based on the values of?
The Romanticism movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his most famous work called "__________".
"Nature"
In Emerson's book, Nature, what did he compare himself to? (Think body part).
A transparent eyeball
The Transcendentalism movement happened in what nation?
United States/ America
This tenet tells you to trust in yourself and your ideas.
Trust of intuition
Around what year did Transcendentalism begin?
1840
Emerson believed that ________ was not an individual experience and that each individual needed to find it for themselves in nature.
Transcendentalism begins in a response to what? (Name at least one of the three correct answers.)
Americans no longer struggled to survive
People had time to write, think, and imagine
Writers gained power and voice in the new culture
What nations did Transcendentalism begin to "reject"?
European Nations
This tenet believes the only way to truly understand yourself, you need to explore.
Truth through experience