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Chapter 14 Vocab.
Chapter 14 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person who leaves a country. | Emigrant |
| A person who settles in a new country. | Immigrant |
| The cheapest deck on a ship. | Steerage |
| A factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pull 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 art style that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion and drew inspiration fro nature. | Romanticism |
| Art school influenced by romanticism. Artists worked near the Hudson River in New York and painted lush natural landscapes, and some went west for a change of scenery. | Hudson River school |
| A 19th century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more than the physical world and that people can find the truth within themselves through feeling and intuition. | Transcendentalism |
| Peacefully refusing laws one considers unjust. | Civil disobedience |
| A meeting to reawaken religious faith. | Revival |
| The renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s. | Second Great Awakening |
| A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. | Temperance movement |
| A group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. | Labor union |
| To stop work to demand better working conditions. | Strike |
| Head of Massachusetts's first state board of education in 1837, he called public education "the great equalizer" and supported the building of public schools. | Horace Mann |
| A reformer from Boston who changed the care of the mentally ill. Her efforts to improve care of the insane led to the construction of 32 new hospitals. | Dorothea Dix |
| The movement to end slavery. | Abolition |
| Born a slave, he was taught to read while young and escaped to freedom in 1838. He was a lecturer for the MA Anti-Slavery Society, published an autobiography (1845), and published an antislavery newspaper. | Frederick Douglass |
| She fled her owners in 1827 and went to live with Quakers, who freed her. Spoke for abolition throughout the North, drawing huge crowds. | Sojourner Truth |
| An aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North. | Underground Railroad |
| A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped many slaves escape during the 19 journeys she made to the South. | Harriet Tubman |
| An abolitionist who also demanded equality for women, esp. after being unable to speak in public at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. Held the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| A women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19-20, 1848. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| The right to vote. | Suffrage |
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