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Chapter 14 Vocab VK
| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| People who leave a country | emigrant |
| People who settle in a new country | immigrant |
| Cheapest deck on a ship | steerage |
| Push people out of their Native Land and into new land | push-pull factors |
| Severe food shortage | famine |
| Negative opinion based on facts | prejudice |
| Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence | nativists |
| Style of European art in the 1800s | romanticism |
| School under the influence of romanticism | hudson river school |
| Philosophy by a group of thinkers | transcendentalism |
| peaceful protesting | civil disobedience |
| Meeting to reawaken religious faith | revival |
| Renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s | second great awakening |
| Campaign against drinking alcohol | temperance movement |
| Group of workers who ban together to get better working conditions | labor union |
| Stopping work to get better working conditions | strike |
| Pressured the country in to making a better condition for education | Horace Mann |
| Wanted better conditions for people in jail | Dorothea Dix |
| Movement to end slavery | Abolition |
| Speaker against slavery | Fredrick Douglass |
| Speaker against slavery | Sojourner Truth |
| Route taken by escaping slaves to get to the north | Underground Railroad |
| Slave who escaped 20 times taking many other slaves with her | Harriet Tubman |
| Part if the womens' rights movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Convention held for the rights of women | Seneca Falls Convention |
| Right to vote | Suffrage |