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ch 14 ec
| Word | Defenition |
|---|---|
| emigrant | people who leave a country |
| immigrant | people who settle in a new country |
| steerage | the cheapest deck on a ship |
| push-pull factor | forces that push people out of thir native lands and pull them towards another |
| famine | severe food shortage |
| prejudice | negative opinion not based on facts |
| nativists | people who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
| romanticism | a style of art |
| Hudson River School | a school of artists |
| transcendentalism | teaching that spiritual world is more important than the real one |
| civil disobediance | form of protesting that involves refusing to obey laws |
| revival | meeting to awaken religeous beleif |
| Second Great Awakening | a great renewal of faith in the 1790's and early 1800's |
| temperance movement | campaign to stop the drinking of alchohal |
| labor union | group of workers banding together to seek better working conditions |
| strike | stopping work to demand better conditions |
| Horace Mann | called for public education |
| Dorotha Dix | taught Sunday school in a woman's jail |