JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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Transcendentalists wrote about the idea of self-reliance.
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Transcendentalists created neoclassical style architecture.
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Transcendentalists emphasized the need to get material wealth.
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Transcendentalists encouraged the spread of slavery.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a group, the transcendentalists led the celebration of the American experiment as one of individualism and self-reliance. They took progressive stands on women’s rights, abolition, reform, and education. They criticized government, organized religion, laws, social institutions, and creeping industrialization.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalists added to the spirit of reform by urging people to question society’s rules and institutions. Do not conform to others’ expectations, they said. If you want to find God–and your own true self–look to nature and the “God within."
Detailed explanation-3: -’Self-Reliance’ challenged Americans to trust their own unique powers and think for themselves. Emerson and his fellow transcendentalists argued that only the self-reliant, intuitive individual was capable of effecting positive and innovative change.
Detailed explanation-4: -The philosophy of transcendentalism arose in the 1830s in the eastern United States as a reaction to intellectualism. Its adherents yearned for intense spiritual experiences and sought to transcend the purely material world of reason and rationality.