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Ch.14 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who leave a country. | emigrant |
| People who settle in a new country. | immigrant |
| The cheapest deck on a ship-most immigrants could only afford a voyage in the steerage. | steerage |
| Conditions that push people out of their native land and pull them toward a new place. | push-pull factor |
| A severe food shortage. | famine |
| A negative opinion not based on facts. | prejudice |
| Native-born Americans who desired to eliminate foreign influence from America. | nativist |
| A style of European art that stressed individuality, creativity, and emotion and was inspired by nature. | romanticism |
| A group of painters influenced by romanticism that painted landscapes near the Hudson River. | Hudson River school |
| A philosophy that stated the spiritual world and one's values were more important than the physical world. | transcendentalism |
| A form of peaceful protest where a citizen does not obey laws that it considers unjust. | civil disobedience |
| A meeting to reawaken religious faith. | revival |
| A renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and 1800's that convinced people to help each other and press for equality and reform. | Second Great Awakening |
| A campaign to stop alcohol drinking. Women, churches, and business owners participated heavily. In the 1850's, laws related to the banning of alcohol were passed. | temperance movement |
| A group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. | labor union |
| A refusal to work until better working conditions are met. | strike |
| The head of the Massachusetts 1837 board of education-advocate of public education. | Horace Mann |
| A reformer in 1841 who wanted the mentally ill to have better care. | Dorothea Dix |
| The movement to end slavery-began in America in the late 1700's. | abolition |
| A former slave who spoke publicly for abolition in the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. | Fredrick Douglass |
| A former slave who spoke for abolition in the North and was saved by the Quakers from slavery. | Sojourner Truth |
| A series of escape routes for slaves to journey North-some people aided the slaves along the routes. | Underground Railroad |
| A former slave and conductor of the U.R. who led many slaves to freedom. | Harriet Tubman |
| A woman who was denied the right to speak for abolition in 1840 and held a convention for women's rights in 1848. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| A women's rights convention in New York on July 19-20, 1848-about 100 to 300 men and women attended and many resolutions were passed-suffrage was barely passed. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| The right to vote. | suffrage |
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