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chap 14 vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| emigrant | people who leave a country |
| immigrant | people who settle in a new country |
| steerage | the cheepest deck on a ship |
| push-pull factor | factors push people out of their native lands and pull them toward a new place |
| famine | a severe food shortage |
| prejudice | a negative opinion that is not based on facts |
| nativist | native-born americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influences |
| romanticism | it stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion |
| hudson river school | artists painted lush natural landscapes |
| transcendentalism | a group of thinkers with a new philosophy |
| civil disbedience | a form of protest |
| revival | meeting to reawaken of religious faith |
| second great awakening | the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 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 | stopping work to demand better conditions |
| horace mann | head of the first board of education in the united states |
| dorothea dix | helped improve the care for the mentally ill |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| frederick douglass | an moving abolitionist man speaker |
| sojourner truth | a moving abolitionist woman speaker |
| underground railroad | an aboveground series of escape routes from the south to the north |
| harriet tubman | one of the most famous conductor for the undeerground railroad |
| elizabeth cady stanton | a famous abolitionsts |
| seneca falls convention | a meeting about women's rights |
| suffrage | the right to vote |