Vocabulary
Transcendentalism
Thoreau
Emerson
100
Someone who is not reasonable or intelligent
What is brute?
100
Transcend means
What is "to go beyond what is normally seen or experienced"?
100
HDT stands for
What is Henry David Thoreau?
100
Long essay that talks about his spiritual and philosophical beliefs
What is Nature?
200
Integrate
What is to unify or blend together?
200
Do not believe that people are split into _____ & ______
What is good and evil?
200
attended this university
What is Harvard?
200
First profession that Emerson had after college
What is a minister?
300
recurring every year
What is perennial?
300
Literary period of the 1830's and 1840's
When was Transcendentalism?
300
Story that describes in detail the actions of two types of ants and a bird
What is "Brute Neighbors"?
300
Spending time in nature allowed you to begin to understand __________
Who is God?
400
Tumultuous
What is stormy or chaotic?
400
Plants, animals, humans, and nature are a representation of
Who is God?
400
July 4th, 1895
What is the day Thoreau moved to Walden Pond?
400
14 years old
What is the age he went to Harvard?
500
Inference
What is to draw a conclusion from given information?
500
Philosophy was created by
Who are Thoreau and Emerson?
500
Indirectly inspired political activists like
Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.
500
Boston, MA
What is where Emerson was born?
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