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Chapter 14 Vocab Bk
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a person who leaves a country. | emigrant |
| a person who settles in a new country. | immigrant |
| the cheapest deck or place on a ship. | steerage |
| a severe food shortage. | famine |
| a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. | nativists |
| a European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. | romanticism |
| a group of artists living in the Hudson River Valley in New York. | Hudson River school |
| a 19th-century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition. | transcendentalism. |
| peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust. | civil disobedience |
| a meeting designed to reawaken religious faith. | revival |
| the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 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 |
| to stop work to demand better working conditions. | strike |
| called public education “the great equalizer.” He also argued that “education creates or develops new treasures | Horace Mann |
| a reformer from Boston | Dorothea Dix |
| the movement to end slavery. | Abolition |
| moving abolitionist speakers | Frederick Douglass |
| moving abolitionist speakers | Sojourner Truth |
| a series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the South. | Underground Railroad |
| One of the most famous conductors | Harriet Tubman |
| abolitionists. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| a women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| the right to vote | suffrage |