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| Belief that one's fate was already established by God. |
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| Relying on ourselves, not God. |
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| Belief in a divine force that doesn't interfere with mankind. Understand this force through intellect and nature. |
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| The greatest danger to democracy. One can become too powerful. Use common sense to solve the problem of factions. |
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| The stories that people tell themselves about themselves. |
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An American cast of Romanticism. Developed as a loose grouping of beliefs developed by thinkers. 1.Knowledge comes from human spirit. 2.Rejection of organized religion in favor of individual, self-reliant exploration of relationship between spirit and world.
3. Distrust of civilized culture
4. Understand God through nature |
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Celebrated:
Personal liberty
Intuition
Nature
A broader definition of spirituality than strict, biblical revelation |
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| The idea that a country belongs to a certain group of people |
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| Mode of writing that draws on dark uncertainties in order to lend insight into the secrets of the human mind and imagination. Gloomy, sinister, mysterious atmosphere. Usually see psychological aspects. Rational can't explain the mind |
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| Experience of the universe as bigger than we can possibly understand. |
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| Founders knew it was wrong, but they thought it would diminish and disappear. (true of the North) Increased demand for cotton meant increased demand for cheap labor source, hence slavery in the south. |
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| The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
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| How the Puritans wrote, thought, dressed etc. |
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| Why are there poor people? |
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| God made rich and poor people to show his providence. Everyone needs each other and everyone has a job to do. Gos is honored more when people help each other instead of God himself doing it. |
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1. The theory or practice of mercantile pursuits : commercialism.
2. Forging a bond between military and commercial affairs. |
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| Meeting and blending of numerous cultures. |
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| The Revolution Era. George Whitfield: Methodist who walked to all colonies and preached outside about an emotional connection to God. Right to religious freedom is defended. |
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| Self-examination, glory of the invisible world, significance of scripture, predestination, and providence. |
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| Why did America develop the way it did? |
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| Partially because of who was sent here. English sent Puritans, farmers, and poor people looking for a way out, a fresh start, and religious freedom. |
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| American Literature Themes |
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| American literature up to 1700 consists of only about 250 published works. It reflects the pressing religious, security, and cultural concerns of colonial life. |
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| Cain's Letter about Emerson |
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| Cain’s “Letter to the Reader” suggests to us that Emerson can serve as something of a lens for making sense of this era. Essentially, according to Cain, in Emerson we see all the major ideas that define this era, which links the eras before Emerson to everything after him. |
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| Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the US. A time of revival in a national sense. Reform in religious denominations and some forms of social reform. |
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| You decide what God is like.Churches are bad; God is good. |
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| Valued individualism, enterprise, liberty, Reason and Rationality and the study of nature. These ideas drive the ideological shift leading to the founding of the Republic. They are Romantic ideas. |
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