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Ch.#14
Ch.14 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 their native land and pull them towards a new place |
| famine | a disease that caused a severe food storage |
| prejudice | a negative opinion that is not based on facts |
| nativist | Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
| romanticism | A style of European art that stressed the individual, creativity, and emotion and drew inspiration from nature |
| Hudson River school | a group of painters influenced by romanticism worked near the Hudson River in New York State that painted lush natural landscapes |
| transcendentalism | taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world |
| civil disobedience | protesting through peacefully refuse to obey those laws |
| revival | meeting of reawakened religous faith |
| Second Great Awakening | the renewal of religous faith in the 1790s and early 1800s |
| temperance movement | a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol |
| labor union | a group of workers who banded together to seek better working conditions |
| strike | stopping work to demand better conditions |
| Horace Mann | headed |
| Dorothea Dix | a reformer in Boston who found that some women locked in jails were just mentally ill |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | moving abolitionist speaker who began to publish and antislavery newspaper and spoke of his own experience with slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | was born enslaved and fled from her owners and went to live with Quakers who set her free and helped recover her son and spoke of abolition |
| Underground Railroad | an aboveground series of escape routes from the South and the North |
| Harriet Tubman | a conductor of the runaways that led to freedom and escaped her owner before being sold |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | was part of an American delegation that attended the Worls Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | held for women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 and 20, 1848 |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
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