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Chpt. 14 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emigrant | People who leave their country for another country. |
| Immigrant | People who settle in a new country. |
| Steerage | The cheapest part of a ship. |
| Push-pull Factors | Forces that push people out of their native land and pull them toward a new place. |
| Famine | A severe food shortage. |
| Prejudice | A negative opinion that is not based on facts. |
| Nativists | Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate forieign influence. |
| Romanticism | European style of art. Stresses the induvidual's imagination, creativity, and emocion. It drew inspiration from nature. |
| Hudson River School | A group of painters influenced by romanticism who worked near the Hudson River in New York. |
| Trascendentalism | Philosophy that teaches that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world. It also teaches that people can find truth within themselves through feeling and emotion. |
| Civil Disobedience | A form of protesting in which protesters peacefully refuse to obey laws. |
| Revival | A meeting to reawaken religious faith. |
| Second Great Awakening | The renewal of faith in the 1790s and early 1800s. |
| 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 | Stopping work to demand better conditions. |
| Horace Mann | The head of the first board of education in the United States. He called for public education. |
| Dorothea Dix | A reformer from Boston. She called for better living conditions and care for the mentally ill. |
| Abolition | The movement to end slavery. |
| Frederick Douglass | A slave born abolitionist lecturer from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. |
| Sojourner Truth | A slave born abolitionist speaker. |
| Underground Railroad | An aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North used by runaway slaves. |
| Harriet Tubman | A conductor who led runaway slaves to freedom. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Member of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. |
| Seneca Falls Convection | A convention for women's rights held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
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