Nationalism

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Nationalism Sectionalism in art, literature
language

• Goal 22.02

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Noah Webster

• Created the American Dictionary

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Transcendentalism

• Literary philosophical movement that focused
  on
• Living a simple life
• Communing with nature
• Human dignity imagination
• Opposed slavery
• Did not trust organized religion

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Ralph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalist writer
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Henry David Thoreau

• Transcendentalist writer
• Lived in solitude at Walden Pond
• Practiced Civil Disobedience by not paying his
  taxes during the Mexican War

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Washington Irving

• American short story writer
• Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Rip Van Winkle
• Wrote about New England / Hudson River area

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Edgar Allan Poe

• American romantic novelist/poet
• Tell Tale Heart
• The Raven

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Scarlet Letter

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James Fennimore Cooper

• Last of the Mohicans
• Leatherstocking Tales
• Wrote about the American Frontier

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Neoclassical Architecture

• Example of American Renaissance Architecture
• American Style

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Hudson River School of Art

• Painted the beauty of the American landscape

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Alex de TocquevilleFrench Writer

• Studied American democracy
• Was outraged by the American prison system