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chapter 14 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| emigrants | people who leave the country |
| immigrant | person who arrives at a country |
| steerage | the cheapest deck on a ship |
| push-pull factors | included pop. growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, industrial revolution,religious and political turmoil, immigrants chose u.s. for freedom, economic oppurtunity, and abundant land |
| famine | food shortage |
| prejudice | a negative opinion |
| nativist | native born americans |
| romanticism | european art |
| hudson river school | art school |
| transcendentalism | philosophy created by emerson and thoreau |
| civil disobedience | to refuse a law peacefully |
| revival | meeting to reawaken religious faith |
| 2nd great awakening | renewal of religious faith in the 1790 and early 1800s |
| temperance movement | campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol |
| labor union | a group of workers who band together to find a better workking condition |
| strike | stop of work to demand better conditions |
| horace mann | called public education the great equalizer |
| dorothy dix | taught women at jail and made states build 32 hospitals for the mental |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| frederick douglas | slave |
| sojourner truth | slave |
| underground railroad | way to escape to the north |
| harriet tubman | slave and one of the most famous directors |
| elizabeth cady stanton | abolitionist |
| SUFFRAGE | THE RIGHT TO VOTE |
| SENECA FALLS CONVENTION | FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT |