THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING CHARLES FINNEY AND RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
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Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson
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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau
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Horace Mann, William Loyd Garrison, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Transcendentalist Movement was centered in New England and included a number of prominent individuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. They formed a club called The Transcendental Club, which met to discuss a number of new ideas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, thinker and philosopher who became the leading proponent of Transcendentalism, a movement that imbued the austere New England Unitarian tradition with elements of mysticism. In 1803, Emerson was born into a Unitarian family in Boston.
Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and James Freeman Clarke, as well as George Ripley, Bronson Alcott, the younger W.E. Channing, and W.H. Channing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau was an American author and philosopher famous for his observations of the natural world and his transcendentalist beliefs.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous and influential transcendentalists. Some influential transcendentalists, such as Margaret Fuller, were early pioneers of feminism.