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Ch.14 Vocab. SA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a person who leaves a country. | emigrant |
| a person who settles in a new country. | immigrant |
| the cheapest deck or place on a ship. | steerage |
| a factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place. | push-pull factor |
| a severe food shortage. | famine |
| a negative opinion that is not based on facts. | prejudice |
| a native born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. | nativist |
| a Euorean artstic moment that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. | romanticism |
| a group of artist living in the Hudson River Valley in New York. | Hudson-River School |
| a 19th century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition. | transcendentalism |
| peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust. | civil disobedience |
| a meeting designed to reawaken religious faith. | revival |
| the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s. | Second Great Awakening |
| a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. | temperance movement |
| a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. | labor union |
| to stop work to demand better working conditions. | strike |
| He is the head of the first state board of education in the United States (Massachusetts). | Horace Mann |
| reformen from boston worked to improve the care of mentally ill.-32 hospitals. | Dorothea Dix |
| the movement to end slavery. | abolition |
| abolitionist speaker-lecturer of Anti-Slavery-slave himself. | Frederick Douglass |
| abolitionist speaker, slave herself, fled owners/live with Quakers who set her free and also recovered her, son from slavery, changed her name to reflect her work. | Sojourner Truth |
| a series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the South. | Underground Railroad |
| slave in Maryland-tried to save another slave got her on head by the owner so suffered fainting spells for the rest of her life-she escaped and made 19 dangerous journey to free enslaved persons-enemies offered 40000 for her capture but no one caught her. | Harriet Tubman |
| part of the delegation that attended the world Anti-slavery convention in London. Later worked for women's rights. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| in 1848, a women's right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| the right to vote. | suffrage |
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