The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was a:

Your answer:
teacher
writer
lecturer
all of the above


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The transcendentalists were primarily:

Your answer:
craftsmen
politicians
educators
businessmen


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Brook Farm was an attempt to have a:

Your answer:
model society
self-sufficient farm
community of artists
none of the above


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All of the following were transcendentalists except:

Your answer:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Clay
Henry David Thoreau


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The transcendentalists favored which of the following:

Your answer:
The Fugitive Slave Act
Utopian Societies
The Mexican American War
Slavery


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The transcendentalists published which of the following:

Your answer:
The Dial
The Boston Globe
Thoreau's sermons
Emerson's autobiography


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Transcendentalism flourished between:

Your answer:
1790 and 1800
1836 and 1860
1899 and 1900
1801 and 1820


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The feelings of most Americans on the Mexican-American War were:

Your answer:
negative
uninterested
favorable
closely divided


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The Fugitive Slave Act was also called:

Your answer:
Thoreau's Folly
The Compromise of 1850
Clay's Act
The 16th Amendment


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The idea of an American Renaissance that was free of Euruope was introduced by:

Your answer:
George Ripley
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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