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Ch.14 vocab hm

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Emigrants People who leave a country
Immigrants People who settle in a new country
Steerage The cheapest deck on a ship
Push pull factors These forces push people out of their native lands and pull them towards a new place
Famine A severe food shortage
Prejudice A negative opinion that is not based on facts
nativists native born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
Romanticism a writing style that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. It drew inspiration from nature.
Hudson River School a school of artists who painted lush, natural landscapes
Transcendentalism taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world
civil disobedience a peaceful refusal to obey laws that one considers unjust
revival a meeting to reawaken religious faith
Second Great Awakening the renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's
Temperance Movement a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
Labor Union a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
strike stopping work to demand better conditions
Horace Mann head of the first State Board of education in the US, called for public education
Dorothea Dix reformer from Boston who stood up for the mentally ill
abolition movement to end slavery
Frederick Douglass freed slave who was an abolitionist speaker
Sojourner Truth Abolitionist speaker, freed slave; went to court to recover her son from slavery
Underground Railroad an above ground series of escape routes for slaves from the south to the north
Harriet Tubman famous conductor of the underground railroad; former slave
Elizabeth Cady Stanton part of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-slavery convention; was restricted from speaking because she was a woman; demanded equality for woman from men
Seneca Falls Convention a convention held by Stanton and Mott in 1848 for women's rights
suffrage the right to vote
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