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Chapter 14Vocabulary
Ch. 14 Vocabulary for Mrs. Link's class.
Question | Answer |
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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 |