https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji By: Brian LoCicero en-us 2017-11-06 13:11:11 UTC 2017-11-07 03:47:15 UTC hello@padlet.com blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185237 - The paintings in antebellum America portrayed the power of nature through the nation's wildest and most spectacular areas.]]> 2017-11-07 02:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185237 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185377 - The first school for America painters, the Hudson River School, was located in New York]]> 2017-11-07 02:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185377 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185475 - Thomas Cole
- Frederic Church
- Thomas Doughty
- Asher Durand
- Albert Bierstadt
- Thomas Moran]]> 2017-11-07 02:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185475 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185964 - British Writer: Sir Walter Scott - historical novels set in eighteenth-century England and Scotland]]> 2017-11-07 02:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204185964 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186108 - Were mainly sentimental novels by and for women]]> 2017-11-07 02:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186108 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186245 - James Fenimore Cooper
- Wrote more than thirty novels
- Master of adventure and suspense
- Most important novels = "Leatherstocking Tales"
      - Seen as evocation of the ideal of the independent individual with a natural inner goodness and the fear of disorder

]]> 2017-11-07 02:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186245 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186906 - Walt Whitman
- Made own newspaper: "The Long Islander"
- First volume of work: "Leaves of Grass"
- Poems = celebration of democracy
- Expressed the soaring spirit of individualism]]> 2017-11-07 02:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204186906 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187228 - Ran away as child and sailed the world
- Important Work: "Moby Dick"
- Story of courage and strength of the individual will, while a tragedy of pride and revenge]]> 2017-11-07 02:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187228 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187486 - First book: "Tamerlane and Other Poems"
- Evoked images of individuals rising above the narrow confines of intellect and exploring the deeper world of the spirit and the emotions
- World contained pain and horror]]> 2017-11-07 02:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187486 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187751 - Southern novelists produced historical romances/romantic eulogies of the plantation system of the upper South
- William Gilmore Simms: became a strong defender of slavery
- Other Southern writers focused on the world of the backwoods rural areas 
- Painfully realistic
- Example: Mark Twain]]> 2017-11-07 02:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204187751 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204190684 - New England writers and philosophers
- Theory of the individual that rested on a distinction between what they called "reason" and "understanding"
- Reason - the individual's innate capacity to grasp beauty and truth through giving full expression to the instincts and emotion
- Understanding - use of intellect in the narrow, artificial ways imposed by society
- Emerged in Massachusetts with Ralph Waldo Emerson as the leader
- He was a nationalist
- Henry David Thoreau was also an important leader who strove to live a simple life: He did not like slavery at all]]> 2017-11-07 03:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204190684 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204191825 - Nature was a source of human inspiration
- Defended nature since there was an "essential unity between humanity and nature]]> 2017-11-07 03:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204191825 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204192027 - Individuals would gather to create a new form of social organization
- Residents would share labor equally
- Experiment ended up being a failure
- Many experiments similar to this one occurred throughout America]]> 2017-11-07 03:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204192027 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204192396 - Transcendentalism fostered expressions of feminism 
- Margaret Fuller - responsible for raising issues of gender
- She brought forth gender issues and wrote about them
- Redefinition of gender roles: important to the Oneida Community
       - All residents were married to each other. The community carefully monitored sexual behavior, women were protected from unwanted childbearing
     - This community was proud of this movement - which freed women from man's lust
- Redefinition of gender roles: important to the Shakers
     - Commitment to complete celibacy - Shakers had to choose the faith voluntarily
      - Contact between men and women was very limited, there was sexual equality, and women had more power (in the big picture of things)
- They were trying to make a society separated and protected from the chaos and disorder that characterized American life

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- He published the "Book of Mormon"
- Plot: A lost tribe of Israel had a successful civilization in America who had waited patiently for Jesus. Overtime, they became unfaithful and God punished them with dark skin (American Indians were their descendants)
- Smith wanted to model a society after this one.
- Tried unsuccessfully for twenty years to establish a "New Jerusalem," due to the skepticism of others.
- Smith was arrested and killed - followers migrated to current-day Salt Lake City. There they were able to establish their community
- Mormonism reflected a belief of human perfectibility
- Mormons had an intense interest in human genealogy
- Mormons found security and order in their society, while the rest of America was moving forward at a rapid pace. ]]> 2017-11-07 03:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204194248 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204195555 2017-11-07 03:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204195555 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204195933 2017-11-07 03:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204195933 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196082 2017-11-07 03:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196082 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196236 2017-11-07 03:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196236 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196315 2017-11-07 03:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196315 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196436 2017-11-07 03:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196436 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196548 2017-11-07 03:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196548 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196617 2017-11-07 03:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196617 blocicero2019 https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196702 2017-11-07 03:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/blocicero2019/z9rrbxjsb0ji/wish/204196702