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Which 19th century American intellectual was a leader of the Transcendentalist movement and authored numerous essays that formalized much of the American cultural identity of the time?
  1. Henry Adams
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Answer: D - Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered the leading American intellectual of his day. He was one of the founders of the Transcendentalist movement, championed equal rights for women, described solitude in nature as the closest experience one could come to God or the divine, was close friends with Henry David Thoreau and mentored Walt Whitman.
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