Reform Movements & Intellectual Ideas Flashcards
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Transcendentalism
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- Belief in individual intuition, nature, and spiritual truth over materialism
- Promoted self-reliance and connection with nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Founder of Transcendentalism
- Encouraged people to follow their own beliefs and conscience
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Henry David Thoreau
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- Transcendentalist writer who lived in nature (Walden Pond)
- Wrote “Civil Disobedience”—urged people to resist unjust laws peacefully
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American Romanticism
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- Artistic and literary movement focusing on emotion, nature, and individualism
- Celebrated imagination over reason
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Utopian Communities
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- Small experimental societies trying to create a “perfect” community
- Examples: Brook Farm, New Harmony
