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Ch. 14 vocab kk
Pika-pika-piiii!!!!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person who leaves a country. | Emigrant |
| A person who settles in a new country. | Immigrant |
| The cheapest deck or place on a ship. | Steerage |
| A factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place. | Push-pull factor |
| A severe food shortage. | Famine |
| A negative opinion that is not based on facts. | Prejudice |
| A native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. | Nativist |
| A European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. | Romanticism |
| Area near Hudson River in New York State where artists painted lush landscapes | Hudson River School |
| new philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world | transcendentalism |
| Protest by peacefully refusing to obey the laws. This philosophy was set forth by Thoreau | Civil Disobedience |
| meeting to reawaken religious faith | revival |
| renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's | Second Great Awakening |
| campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol | temperance movement |
| group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions | labor union |
| stopping work to demand better working conditions | strike |
| Head of the first state board of education and said it was "the great equalizer" | Horace Mann |
| a reformer from Boston who pleaded with Massachusetts legislature to take care of mentally ill. | Dorothea Dix |
| the movement to end slavery | abolition |
| Abolitionist Speaker who established a career as a lecturer for Massachussetts Anti-Slavery Society | Frederick Douglas |
| left owners and went to live with Quakers and spoke for Abolition | Sojourner Truth |
| above ground series of escape routes from the South to the North | Underground Railroad |
| Conductor who led slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| abolitonist who was part of the American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Convention held for women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| the right to vote | suffrage |