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Chapter 14 Vocab

Chapter 14 Vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
emigrant people who leave a country
immigrant people who settle in a new country
steerage the cheapest deck on a ship
push-pull statements that push people away from an old country and pull them into a new one
famine a severe food shortage
prejudice a negative opininon that is not based on fact
nativists wanted to eliminate foreign influences
romanticism individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion (art)
Hudson River school painted landscapes; took trips to view more lanscapes
transcendalism the spiritual world is more important than the physical world
civil disobedience people peacefully refuse to obey laws, rather than violently
revival a meeting to reawaken faith
Second Great Awakening the second movement to revive religion
temperance movement a campaign to stop the consumption of alcohol
labor union a group of workers who band together to fight for better working conditions
strike stopping work to protest for better conditions
Horace Mann supported education
Dorothea Dix helped the mentally ill
abolition the removal of slavery
Fredrick Douglass fought against slavery and for women's rights
Sojouner Truth fought against slavery with her own experience
Underground Railroad escape roughtsfrom the south to the north; above ground
Harriet Tubman fought against slavery depite her impairments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought against slavery and women's rights
Seneca Falls Convention a convention to fight for women's rights
suffrage the right to vote
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