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Ch 14 Vocab SS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emigrant | People who leave a country |
| Immigrant | People who settle in a new country |
| Steerage | The cheapest deck in a ship |
| Push-pull factor | Pushes people our of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place |
| Famine | A severe food storage |
| Prejudice | A negative opinion that is not based on facts |
| Nativist | Native brim Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
| Romanticism | European artistic movement that stressed and individual immigration, creativity, and emotion |
| Hudson river school | A group of artists living in the hudson river valley in new york |
| Transcendentalism | 19th century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world |
| Civil disobedience | peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust |
| Revival | Meeting to reawaken 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 | is a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions |
| Strike | stopping work to demand better conditions |
| Horace Mann | head of state board education |
| Dorothea Dix | a reformer from boston was teaching sunday school and a women's jail |
| Abolition | the movement to end slavery began in late 1700s |
| Fredrick Douglass | abolitionist speakers |
| Sojourner Railroad | abolitionist speakers |
| Harrit Tubman | One of the most famous railroad conductors |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Abolitionist |
| Senca Falls | for women's rights in seneca fall new yore on july 19 and 20 1848 |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Underground railroad | above ground series of escape routes from the south to north |