1. Reform & Culture Part 2

2. Wednesday’s Warm-Up O Using your textbook define: Transcendentalist O (It is in the glossary; write the whole definition!) O Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.

3. O I can describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American Culture.

4. Developments in Literature Transcendentalism Transcendentalism – an American literary, political and philosophical movement in the early 19 th Century that stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience. Leading Transcendentalists Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller They were critics of their contemporary society & urged each individual to find their independent relation to the universe, like solitude in nature.

5. Warm-up: What do you think the artist was trying to show in this painting. Write 3 sentences.

6. http://youtu.be/xaTXRMK- 0oc O 2 nd Great Awakening – O _________ revival O Church attendance _________ O Number of _________increased O What reform movements occurred because of the 2 nd Great Awakening?

7. O Denomination – O A united religious organization with common beliefs and practice

8. http://youtu.be/xaTXRMK- 0oc O 2 nd Great Awakening – O Religious revival O Church attendance increased O Number of denominations increased O What reform movements occurred because of the 2 nd Great Awakening? O Temperance, abolitionists, suffrage, education, asylum & prison

9. Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain O http://youtu.be/P5A-qvevoSA http://youtu.be/P5A-qvevoSA O Published in the U.S. in 1885 O Portrays regionalism