MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson
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Reform and literary movement surrounding the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Transcendentalists revered nature in a divine sense. Nature was not subordinate to them, but instead nature was the other part of a symbiotic relationship. This analogy is the creed of the transcendental view of nature and of man as individual.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalists who had advanced social reforms that included efforts to increase rights for women, labor, and the indigent redirected their energies toward extinguishing the institution of slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau and Emerson emphasized on the transcendentalist idea of human harmony with nature. They believed that nature can help us improve spiritually and help us connect to the rest of the world. According to Transcendental ideas, everything is connected, everything is one.