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Chapter 14Vocabulary

Ch. 14 Vocabulary for Mrs. Link's class.

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emigrant people who leave a country
immigrant people who settle in a new country
steerage the cheapest deck on ship
push-pull factor forces that push people out of their native lands and pull them toward a new place
famine severe food shortage
prejudice negative opinion that is not based on facts
nativists native born americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
romanticism stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion
Hudson River School school in NYC where painters influenced by romanticism went
transcendentalism taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world
civil disobedience refusing peacefully to obey the laws; practiced by Gandhi and MLK
revival meeting to reawaken religious faith
Second Great Awakening renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s
temperance movement campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
labor union group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
strike stopping work to demand better conditions
Horace Mann head of the first state board of education in the United States
Dorothea Dix a reformer from Boston, helped get better conditions for mentally ill
abolition the movement to end slavery
Frederick Douglass abolitionist speaker who spoke from their own experience of slavery
Sojourner Truth abolitionist speaker who spoke from their own experience of slavery
Underground Railroad an aboveground series of escape routes from the North to the South
Harriet Tubman famous conductor of the underground railroad; escaped from slavery
Elizabeth Cady Stanton part of the American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840
Seneca Falls Convention convention held for women rights, wrote document of complaints and resolutions
suffrage the right to vote
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