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Chapter 14 Vocab KL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who leave a country. | emigrant |
| People who settle in a new country. | immigrant |
| The cheapest deck on a ship. | steerage |
| Forces that push people out of their native lands and pull them to another place. | push-pull factors |
| A severe shortage of food. | famine |
| A negative opinion not based on facts. | prejudice |
| Native born Americans who didn't want European influence in America. | nativists |
| A writing style that stressed imagination, creativity, and emotion. | romanticism |
| A school for the arts. | Hudson River School |
| A philosophy that said the spiritual world is more important than the physical world. | transcendentalism |
| A form of protest were people peacefully don't follow laws. | civil disobedience |
| A meeting to reawaken religious faith. | revival |
| A renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's. | 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 |
| Stopping work to demand better working conditions. | strike |
| He wanted more educational schools. | Horace Mann |
| Reformed care for the mentally ill. | Dorothea Dix |
| The movement to end slavery. | abolition |
| An abolition speaker who was a former slave. | Fredrick Douglass |
| An abolition speaker who was a former slave. | Sojourner Truth |
| Slave escape routes from the South to the North. | Underground Railroad |
| A slave that escaped and returned 19 times to free other slaves. | Harriet Tubman |
| A female abolitionists. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| A meeting that men and women wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution. | Seneca Falls Convection |
| The right to vote. | suffrage |