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Ch.14 vocab
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Question | Answer |
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Emigrants | A person who leaves a country. |
Immigrants | A person who settles in a new country. |
Steerage | The deck or place on a ship. |
Push-pull factor | A factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place. |
Famine | A severe food shortage. |
Prejudice | A negative opinion that is not based on facts. |
Nativist | A native-born american who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. |
Romanticism | a European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. |
Hudson River school | a group of artists living in the Hudson River Valley in New York. |
Transcendentalism | a 19-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. |
Civil disobedience | a peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust. |
Revival | a meeting designed to reawaken religious faith. |
Second Great Awakening | the renewal of religous faith in the 1790s and 1800s |
Temperance movement | a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. |
Labor Union | a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. |
Strike | to stop work to demmad better working conditions. |
Horace Mann | was head for Mass. first state board of eduation in the United States. |
Dorothea Dix | a reformer fom Boston, was teaching Sunday school at a women's jail. |
Abolition | a movement to end Slavery. |
Frederick Douglass | a abolitionst speaker with courage and talent at public speaking won him a career as a lecturer for the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society. |
Sojourner Truth | a abolitionist speaker and believe slavery should end. |
Underground Railroad | a series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the south |
Harriet Tubman | a conductor, born a a slave in Maryland, the 13-year old Tubman once tried to save another slave from punishment. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | is part an American delegation that attended the World Anti-slavery Convention in London in 1840. |
Seneca Falls Convention | women's rights held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 |
Suffrage | the right to vote. |