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Vocab chpt 14

Emigrant A person who leaves a country
Immigrant A person who settles in a new country
Steerage The cheapest deck on a ship
Push-pull factor A force that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place
Famine A severe food shortage
Prejudice A negative opinion that is not based on facts
Nativist Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
Revival A meeting to reawaken religious faith
Second Great Awakening A renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s
Temperance movement A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
Labour union A group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
Strike A stopping of work to demand better conditions
Horace Mann A reformer who worked for education improvements
Dorothea Dix A reformer who worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill
Romanticism A style of art that stressed the individual,imagination,creativity,and emotion
Hudson River school American painters who painted peaceful landscapes
Transcedentalism A philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical one
Civil disobedience A form of peaceful protest in which people refuse to obey laws they consider unjust
Abolition The movement to end slavery
Frederick Douglass An escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader
Sojourner Truth Former slave who became an abolitionist and supporter of women's rights
Underground Rail road An above-the-ground series of escape routes for runaway slaves from the South to the North
Harriet Tubman The most famous conductor on the Underground Rail road
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movements
Seneca Falls Convention Convention held in 1848 to argue for women's right
Suffrage The right to vote
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