Identify the tenets of transcendentalism that served as a critique of mainstream society.How did Emerson and Thoreau conceive of nature and its role in the human experience? 

Unit Four Student Learning Objectives

Identify the features of the many reform movements that arose in the United States

Recognize the importance of the abolition of slavery in the reform era

Recognize the features and arguments of the national political debates over the expansion of slavery

Recall the importance of major battles of the Civil War

Recognize the role of slavery in transforming the aim and meaning of the Civil War

Recognize the various Reconstruction plans

Identify the dynamics of southern society, economy, and politics during Reconstruction Assignments (Things to Complete)

Identify the tenets of transcendentalism that served as a critique of mainstream society.How did Emerson and Thoreau conceive of nature and its role in the human experience?