Transcendentalism Jeopardy

History

100

Transcendentalism started in this century

19th 

200

True or False: Transcendentalists rejected the idea of organized religion, but were still spiritual.

True

300

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

400

What movement was Transcendentalism based on the values of?

The Romanticism movement

500

Around what year did Transcendentalism begin?

1840

Ralph Waldo Emerson

100

This famous leader of the Transcendentalism movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

200

True or False: Ralph Waldo Emerson was more focused on the past than the present. 

False

300

Ralph Waldo Emerson was influenced in his transcendentalist writing by two leaders named: ________ and _________.

John Locke and Thomas Jefferson

400

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his most famous work called "__________". 

"Nature"

500

Emerson believed that ________ was not an individual experience and that each individual needed to find it for themselves in nature. 

religion

Ideas

100

True or False: Transcendentalists believed you could find beauty in the ordinary.

True

200

Did transcendentalists think that humans were inherently good or bad

Good 

300

Did transcendentalists like conformity 

No 

400

In Emerson's book, Nature, what did he compare himself to? (Think body part). 

A transparent eyeball

500

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

Misc

100

Were Transcendentalists individualists or collectivists

individualists 

200

What word goes with the definition: "to go above or beyond the limitations that have been imposed on you by society".

Transcend

300

Many of the Transcendentalists were either attendees or professors at what university 

Harvard

400

The Transcendentalism movement happened in what nation?

United States/ America

500

What nations did Transcendentalism begin to "reject"? 

European Nations

Tenets of Transcendentalism

100

This tenet focuses on rejecting the cultural norm.

Individualism

200

The tenet tells us that "all creation is united and  __________ the gospel of the universal soul".

Nature or Love for Nature

300

This tenet revolved around getting rid of material possessions to live or living off the land.

Self Reliance

400

This tenet tells you to trust in yourself and your ideas.

Trust of intuition 

500

This tenet believes the only way to truly understand yourself, you need to explore. 

Truth through experience