Transcendentalism

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  1. 3. What transcendentalists believed was inherent in all people
  2. 10. Belief in trusting yourself and being a nonconformist
  3. 15. Literary movement emphasizing emotion imagination and nature's beauty
  4. 16. Emerson's famous essay about trusting yourself over tradition
  5. 17. Event that transcendentalism was partly a response to
  6. 19. The father of Transcendentalism who wrote Self-Reliance and Nature
  7. 20. What transcendentalists believed people could access directly
  8. 24. Emerson's concept of a universal spirit connecting all beings
  9. 25. What transcendentalists believed had a corrupting influence
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  1. 1. Thoreau's essay about resisting unjust laws
  2. 2. Movement focusing on human fallibility sin and darkness within
  3. 4. Transcendentalism's hopeful view of human nature
  4. 5. Movement sparked by transcendentalist ideas about nature
  5. 6. Thoreau's book about living deliberately in the woods
  6. 7. What Emerson criticized in his writing
  7. 8. Author who lived at Walden Pond and wrote Civil Disobedience
  8. 9. Strict religious tradition that transcendentalists reacted against
  9. 11. What transcendentalists believed was spiritual and instructive
  10. 12. Civil rights leader inspired by transcendentalist ideas
  11. 13. Massachusetts town that was the center of the transcendentalist movement
  12. 14. Leader influenced by transcendentalist philosophy of peaceful resistance
  13. 18. A philosophical and literary movement emphasizing inherent goodness of people and nature
  14. 21. What transcendentalists valued less than intuition
  15. 22. Inner voice that transcendentalists believed knows truth better than logic
  16. 23. Refusing to follow tradition or authority