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Ch 14 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| people who leave a country | emigrants |
| people who settle in a new country | immigrants |
| cheapest deck on a ship | steerage |
| forces that push people out of their native lands and pull them toward a new place | push-pull factor |
| a disease | famine |
| negative opinion that is not based on facts | prejudice |
| native born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence | nativists |
| stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion | romanticism |
| the first coherent school of American art,active from 1825 to 1870 | Hudson River School |
| taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world | transcendentalism |
| instead of protesting with violence, they should peacefully refuse to obey those laws | civil disobedience |
| meeting to reawaken religious faith | revival |
| renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s | Second Great Awakening |
| a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol | temperance movement |
| 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 U.S. | Horace Mann |
| reformer from Boston | Dorothea Dix |
| movement to end slavery | abolition |
| moving abolitionist speaker | Frederick Douglass |
| moving abolitionist speaker | Sojourner Truth |
| aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North | Underground Railroad |
| one of the most famous conductors (people who led the runaways to freedom) | Harriet Tubman |
| a women abolitionist | Elizabeth Cady Stantion |
| a women's right convention held in Seneca Falls,New York in 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| the right to vote | suffrage |