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SS: Ch. 14 Vocab
Vocab for US History Ch. 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who leave a country | emigrant |
| People who settle in a new country | immigrant |
| Cheapest deck on a ship | steerage |
| Factors that push people out of their old lands and pull them into new ones. | push-pull factor |
| Severe food shortage | famine |
| Negative opinion not based on facts | prejudice |
| Native-born Americans who wished to eliminate foreign influence. | nativist |
| Style of art that stressed individuality, imagination, creativity, and emotion, drawing its inspiration from nature. | romanticism |
| School set up by a group of painters influenced by romanticism near the Hudson River. | Hudson River school |
| Philosophy that taught that the spiritual world was more important than the physical one. | transcendentalism |
| Form of protest that involves refusing to obey laws one considers unjust. | civil disobedience |
| Meeting to reawaken religious faith | revival |
| Renewal of religious faith between the 1790s and 1800s. Taught that anyone could be saved. | Second Great Awakening |
| Campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. | temperance movement |
| Group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. | labor union |
| Refusing to work to demand better conditions. | strike |
| Head of the first state board of education in Massachusetts. | Horace Mann |
| Reformer from Boston who sought out better conditions for the "mentally ill" women. | Dorothea Dix |
| Movement to end slavery | abolition |
| Once-enslaved abolitionist speaker whose courage and talent at speaking won him a career as a lecturer. He later published an antislavery newspaper. | Frederick Douglass |
| Once-enslaved abolitionist speaker who fled from her owners and lived with the Quakers, who freed her. She later recovered her son and changed her name to reflect her work. She drew huge crowds of people for her speeches. | Sojourner Truth |
| Series of escape routes from the South to the North. | Underground Railroad |
| Famous conductor who escaped enslavement and made several dangerous journeys to help free slaves. | Harriet Tubman |
| Abolitionist who later decided to also demand equality for women. She held the Seneca Falls Convention with Mott. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Convention for women's rights, attracting between 100 and 300 men and women. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| Right to vote | suffrage |
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