Chapter 14 Section 1 and 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
Americans who opposed immigrants. They protested and distrusted Catholics.
Nativists
A political party founded by nativists who supported measures making it difficult for foreigners to hold office or become citizens.
Know-Nothing Party
A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor. It included merchants, manufacturers, professionals, and master crafts people.
Middle Class
Crowded, poorly designed, and unsafe apartment buildings where most poor people lived.
Tenements
Belief that people could rise above material things in life. They also believed in self dependence and using they own insights.
Transcendentalism
An important transcendentalist and popular writer and thinker who believed Americans disregard institutions and follow their own beliefs. He wrote an essay called “Self Reliance”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An important transcendentalist who edited “The Dial”, an important transcendentalist magazine.
Margaret Fuller
An important transcendentalist lived in nature. He wrote “Walden”
Henry David Thoreau
A perfect community
Utopian Communities
A writer who published a classic of Romantic literature, The Scarlett Letter.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A writer who published Billy Budd and Moby Dick
Herman Melville
A poet, most of her poems were published after her death.
Emily Dickinson
Became famous for his short stories and poems, most notably “The Rave”.
Edgar Allan Poe
A writer who wrote the song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Writer whose poetry praised individualism and American democracy
Walt Whitman
