honus history 5.1 American Identity

Rise in nationalism caused…

Development of a distinct American Identity

Romanticism

European and American artistic movement that emphasized nature, emotion, and individualism

Hudson River School

Art movement that emphasized American beauty. The landscape paintings of the frontier encouraged westward movement

Who wrote Last of the Mohicans and what was it about?

James Fenimore Cooper about the French and Indian war and frontier life. A uniquely American experience

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian who wrote Democracy In America which emphasized freedom, equality, religion, and abundant land. He still acknowledged that Natives and slaves didn’t get the same privileges

Transcendentalism

People and nature are inherently good but are corrupted by society. Let go of material goods and return to nature like God intended

Ralph Waldo Emerson (T)

Self Reliance essays that state that there is a personal responsibility for salvation

Henry David Thoreau (T)

Walden shed possessions and return to nature. Practiced civil disobedience to protest governemt

Utopian Communities

“perfect” self reliant communities that aim to forget modern society. Very religious but all failed

Dark Romanticism

People and nature are evil and there is no salvation

Edgar Allen Poe (DR)

Tell Tale Heart, The Raven Overwhelming sadness/guilt

Nathaniel Hawthorne (DR)

Scarlet Letter Adultery in Puritan New England

Herman Melville (DR)

Moby Dick human vs. nature