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| henry david thoreau definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | walden | 14 sets | |
| 2 | civil disobedience | 10 sets | |
| 3 | american 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. | 10 sets | |
| 4 | author of walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism. | 7 sets | |
| 5 | a 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 | |
| 6 | "civil disobedience" | 3 sets | |
| 7 | author of walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism | 3 sets | |
| 8 | romanticism--transcendentalism: walden; civil disobedience | 3 sets | |
| 9 | walden & "civil disobedience" | 3 sets | |
| 10 | american 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 | |
| 11 | resistance to civil government | 3 sets | |
| 12 | transcendentalism | 2 sets | |
| 13 | walden, civil disobedience (he lived in the woods for a year) | 2 sets | |
| 14 | a 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. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | a close associate of emerson and a fellow transcendentalist writer, he was a literary nonconformist and outspoken abolitionist. | 2 sets | |
| 16 | denounced the mexican war and refused to pay taxes for a war that he considered immoral. author of "civil disobedience" | 2 sets | |
| 17 | author of "civil disobedience" | 2 sets | |
| 18 | wrote "civil disobedience;" american author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist | 2 sets | |
| 19 | believed in the importance of human mind/ emphasized self-reliance and individuality/ lived by himself at a place called walden pond for a year | 2 sets | |
| 20 | tanscendentalist writer and philosopher that went to jail for refusing to pay taxes because he believed they would support the war in mexico | 2 sets | |
| 21 | a 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 | |
| 22 | american author who refused to pay a one-dollar tax to vote; spent the night in jail | 2 sets | |
| 23 | refused 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 alone | 2 sets | |
| 24 | author of "walden" | 2 sets | |
| 25 | wrote about transcendentalism ("civil disobedience") ((believed individuals must fight the pressure to conform)) | 2 sets | |
| 26 | wrote walden | 2 sets | |
| 27 | american 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 | |
| 28 | wrote about living in harmony with the natural world | 2 sets | |
| 29 | transcendentalist 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 | |
| 30 | wrote "civil disobedience" | 2 sets | |
| 31 | a writer from new england who attacked social institutions. he believed in free will. | 1 set | |
| 32 | went to jail for refusing to pay taxes cause he thought they would support war with mexico and wrote civil disobediance | 1 set | |
| 33 | romanticism in america | 1 set | |
| 34 | spent two years living in the woods at walden pond, meditating on nature and urged people to live simply | 1 set | |
| 35 | writer from new england who attacked social institutions that he thought were immoral | 1 set | |
| 36 | led the transcendentalists, romanticism--transcendentalism: walden; civil disobedience | 1 set | |
| 37 | walden, nature, student of emerson, civil disobedience | 1 set | |
| 38 | important transcendentalist, he advised self reliance and simple living ways | 1 set | |
| 39 | he condemned slavery and wrote walden: or life in the woods he also wrote on the duty of civil disobedience, which was idealistic in thought, and a forerunner of gandhi and then martin luther king jr., saying it is not wrong to disobey a wrong law | 1 set | |
| 40 | built a cabin in the woods | 1 set | |