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Chapter 14 Vocab-S.S
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emigrant | A person who leaves a country. |
| Immigrant | A person who settles in a new country. |
| Steerage | The cheapest deck or place on a ship. |
| Push-Pull Factor | A factor 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 | A native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. |
| Romanticism | A European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. |
| Hudson River School | A group of artists living in the Hudson River Valley in New York. |
| Transcendentalism | A 19th century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition. |
| Civil Disobedience | Peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust. |
| Revival | A meeting designed 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 | To stop work to demand better working conditions. |
| Horace Mann | He set up the first state board of education in the United States. |
| Dorothea Dix | A reformer who preached to improve the care of the mentally ill. |
| Abolition | The movement to end slavery. |
| Frederick Douglass | An abolitionist speaker who lectured for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, published an autobiography about his former personal slave experiences, and published and anti-slavery newspaper. |
| Sojourner Truth | An abolitionist speaker who set free her son and spoke the truth to huge crowds in the North. |
| Underground Railroad | A series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the South. |
| Harriet Tubman | A young woman who made dangerous journeys on the Underground Railroad to free enslaved people. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | She secretly attended the World Anti-slavery Convention in London in 1840 as well as held the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | A women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
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