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1. Transcendentalism 1830-1880 Kat Harper- Over view/ The American Dream Jack Spalding- Title page/ major works& authors Casey Mikeska- art&music/ citations 2nd Period Mrs. Mayo October 26, 2009-completed
3. - Transcendentalists, mostly New Englanders, mostly around Boston, were attempting to create a uniquely American body of literature. -The Enlightenment had come to new rational conclusions about the natural world. -Most people in this period were beginning to question religious thinking of things, leading to the writings about self reliance and individualism. -The new sport baseball established in 1846. historical events
4. -A lot of people were going under tuberculosis,and the 19th century plague, and most lived for about forty years. -It was filthy where people lived, they had no city wide garbage collection. - There was a lot of economic change brought on by industrialization. - Many people started to rebel against the beliefs of the church. -Dark times and unhealthy living conditions led to writing styles to be dark and gothic and sad, very depressing writing.
5. influences Transcendentalism was based partly on the philosophy of idealism, which dated back to ancient Greece. It was based also on of American Thinkers raging from the Puritans to the 19th century romantics.
7. - You would probably be married at this age, during this time period. -The people in this time period wanted individualism and think their own way, not forced to think they way someone else thinks, like the church. ~Today we have freedom of speech and freedom to practice what religion and or what we believe in. The Americans who called themselves Transcendentalists were idealists, but in a broader more practical sense. Like many Americans today, they believed in human perfectibility, and they worked to achieve this goal.
8. - They were rapidly building shaping cities and industrialization grew. ~Today we are still rapidly growing. -School during this time not everybody had the right to go, mostly men went and women learned how to run a home by their mother. Wealthy families could afford to go to school. It was held in a one room school house. ~Today everybody has the right to go to school in America, and anyone can be a author.
