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Chapter 14 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |