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1walden16 sets
2american transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. he wrote down his beliefs in walden. he started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him mexican war.14 sets
3civil disobedience10 sets
4author of walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism.7 sets
5"civil disobedience"4 sets
6a transcendentalist and friend of emerson. he lived alone on walden pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in walden.4 sets
7american writer. a seminal figure in the history of american thought, he spent much of his life in concord, massachusetts, where he became associated with the new england transcendentalists and lived for two years on the shore of walden pond (1845-1847). his works include "civil disobedience" (1849) and walden (1854).3 sets
8romanticism--transcendentalism: walden; civil disobedience3 sets
9a transcendentalist who wrote the essay "civil disobedience" which outlined his protest to the mexican american war. this essay later influenced non-violent protests by gandhi and m.l. king jr.3 sets
10walden & "civil disobedience"3 sets
11resistance to civil government3 sets
12author of walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism3 sets
13a close associate of emerson and a fellow transcendentalist writer, he was a literary nonconformist and outspoken abolitionist.2 sets
14tanscendentalist writer and philosopher that went to jail for refusing to pay taxes because he believed they would support the war in mexico2 sets
15denounced the mexican war and refused to pay taxes for a war that he considered immoral. author of "civil disobedience"2 sets
16wrote walden2 sets
17walden, civil disobedience (he lived in the woods for a year)2 sets
18believed in the importance of human mind/ emphasized self-reliance and individuality/ lived by himself at a place called walden pond for a year2 sets
19wrote a transcendalist book called walden.2 sets
20transcendentalism2 sets
21close friend of emerson, he is best known for his prose work "walden", as well as his essay "on the duty of civil disobedience". his writings influenced peacemakers such as mahatma gandhi and martin luther king, jr.2 sets
22refused to pay taxes for a war he considered immoral; author of civil disobedience; left society, moved to the woods, built a home, and spent the rest of his life there alone2 sets
23wrote about living in harmony with the natural world2 sets
24american writer. a seminal figure in the history of american thought, he spent much of his life in concord, massachusetts, where he became associated with the new england transcendentalists and lived for two years on the shore of walden pond (1845-1847). his works include "civil disobedience" (1849) and walden (1854)., walden & "civil disobedience"2 sets
25author of "civil disobedience"2 sets
26author of "walden"2 sets
27american philosopher who believed in civil disobedience2 sets
28wrote about transcendentalism ("civil disobedience") ((believed individuals must fight the pressure to conform))2 sets
29wrote "civil disobedience;" american author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist2 sets
30american author who refused to pay a one-dollar tax to vote; spent the night in jail2 sets
31transcendentalist and friend of emerson who lived alone on walden pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in walden. on civil disobedience, he inspired social and political reformers because he had refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the mexican-american war, and spent a night in jail. extreme individualist and advised people to protest by not obeying laws (passive resistance).2 sets
32a transcendentalist and friend of emerson. he lived alone on walden pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in walden. in his essay, "on civil disobedience," he inspired social and political reformers because he had refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the mexican-american war, and had spent a night in jail. he was an extreme individualist and advised people to protest by not obeying laws (passive resistance).2 sets
33wrote "civil disobedience"2 sets
34victorian (transcendentalism)1 set
35writer who inspired chris1 set
36took up emersons' challenge and lived in walden pond's woods for 2 years. wrote walden urging people to leave the comforts of life to commune with nature1 set
37transcendentalists1 set
38the original american dropout, he has inspired seekers of authenticity for 150 years.1 set
39philosopher, poet, naturalist, writer ; strong abolitionist speaking specifically against the fugitive slave law ; supported and coined civil disobedience to unjust laws of society ; most famous literary work was walden a summary of his naturalistic lifestyle1 set
40an american writer and journalist who kept journals about his excursions into wild nature throughout parts of north eastern united states and canada and at walden pond in massachussetts. he sought self-sufficiency, and harmonious co existence.1 set