The origins, goals, and composition of the feminist, or women's liberation, movement civil rights and student movements. The goals were to eliminate inequality and sexual exploitation in organizations that wanted more opportunities than being at home, they wanted more to do.
11.7 What were the main ideas of transcendentalism?
The transcendentalism was part of the Romantic reaction against the preceding in Age of Reason. It moved away from the cold, mechanistic view of the world and was favored instead views that saw change and growth as the essence of how a truly human life. Contrary to the larger ethos of Jacksonian Democracy, individualism and uniqueness were seen as valuable and to be encouraged. Always something rare now and days. More, repudiating the Industrial Revolution, transcendentalists reveled in their relationship with the natural, and sometimes supernatural, world. Henry David Thoreau, an acknowledged homosexual in an era when no one would consider that acceptable, went so far as to live out his ideals and is often credited as the founder of the backpacking or naturalist movement with his “rustication” rambles through the woods and his poetry exalting nature. …show more content…
Significant portions of land claimed by Texas, and thus part of its area when joining the Union, were disputed by Mexico and had not been recognized as part of the Republic. Massive movement of Americans, principally from the Ohio River Valley, to California similarly concerned Mexican authorities and the 1844 election of Polk, an avowed expansionist, was similarly troubling. Eventually, the US bullied Mexico into war shortly after the annexation of Texas. Adding insult to injury, Polk offered to buy what would become the Mexican Cession, more than half the nation’s territory, for an absurdly low