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Ch. 14 Vocab Link
Ch. 14 Vocab JX
| 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 toward a new place. | push-pull factors |
| a severe food shortage | famine |
| A negative opinion that is not based on facts. | prejudice |
| Native Americans who want to eliminate foreign influence. | nativists |
| A style of European art that stressed the individual, creativity and emotion. | romanticism |
| Artists here painted lush natural landscapes. | Hudson River school |
| Taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find the truth within-through feeling and intuition. | transcendentalism |
| Protesting peacefully by refusing to obey the laws considered unjust. | civil disobedience |
| meeting to reawaken religious faith. | revival |
| The renewal of religioius faith in the 1790s and eaerly 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 |
| stopping work to demand better conditions. | strike |
| Head of the first state board of education in the United States (in Massachusetts 1837). | Horace Mann |
| A reformer from Boston who taught Sunday school at a women's jail. She fought for care of mentally ill people. | Dorothea Dix |
| the movement to end slavery | abolition |
| A moving abolitionist speaker who spoke from hisown experience of slavery. His talent and courage at public speakin won him a career as a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. | Frederick Douglas |
| A moving abolitionist speaker who spoke from her own experience of slavery. | Sojourner Truth |
| An aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North. | Underground Railroad |
| One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad. | Harriet Tubman |
| An abolitionist who was part of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Held by Stanton and Mott for women's rights in Seneca Falls. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| the right to vote | suffrage |
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