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Chapter 14 vocab
Question | Answer |
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emigrant | People who leave a Country |
immigrant | People who settle in a new country |
steerage | cheapest deck on a ship |
push-pull factor | push people out of one land and into another |
famine | Severe food shortage |
prejudice | negative opinion not based on facts |
nativist | People who didn't want foreign immigration |
romanticism | inspiration from nature |
Hudson River school | where artists painted lush natural landscapes |
transcendentalism | way of thinking the spiritual world is more important then the physical world |
civil disobedience | peacefully refuse to obey the law |
revival | meeting to reawaken religious faith |
Seconds Great Awakening | Renewal of religious faith |
temperance movement | campaign to stop smoking and drinking |
labor union | group of workers that want better working conditions |
strike | stopping work demanding better working conditions |
Horace Mann | first head of the board of education |
Dorothea Dix | learned about the diabled |
abolition | movement to end slavery |
Frederick Douglass | spoke about slavery |
Sojourner Truth | spoke about slavery |
Underground Railroad | series of routes to get out of the south |
Harriet Tubman | Famous conductor of underground railroad |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | attended world anti-slavery convention |
Seneca Falls Convention | Convention for womens rights |
Suffrage | right to vote |