Reform & Culture Part 2

Wednesday’s Warm-UpO Using your textbook define:

TranscendentalistO (It is in the glossary; write the whole

definition!)

O Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.

OI can describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American Culture.

Developments in LiteratureTranscendentalism – an American literary, political and philosophical movement in the early 19th Century that stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience. Leading Transcendentalists Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Margaret FullerThey were critics of their contemporary society &urged each individual to find their independent relation to the universe, like solitude in nature.

Warm-up: What do you think the artist was trying to show in this painting. Write

3 sentences.

http://youtu.be/xaTXRMK-0oc

O 2nd Great Awakening –O _________ revivalO Church attendance _________O Number of _________increased

O What reform movements occurred because of the 2nd Great Awakening?

O Denomination –O A united religious organization with

common beliefs and practice

http://youtu.be/xaTXRMK-0oc

O 2nd Great Awakening –O Religious revivalO Church attendance increasedO Number of denominations increased

O What reform movements occurred because of the 2nd Great Awakening?

O Temperance, abolitionists, suffrage, education, asylum & prison

Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain

O http://youtu.be/P5A-qvevoSA

O Published in the U.S. in 1885O Portrays regionalism