Ayo Chp 14 Word Scramble
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Emigrant | A person who leaves a country. |
Immigrant | A person who settles in a new country. |
Steerage | The cheapest deck on a ship. |
Push-Pull Factors | A force that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them towards a new place. |
Famine | A severe food shortage. |
Prejudice | A negative opinion that is not based on facts. |
Nativist | Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence. |
Romanticism | A style of art that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. |
Hudson River School | American painters who painted peaceful landscapes. |
Transcendentalism | A philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical one. |
Civil Disobedience | A form of peaceful protest in which people refuse to obey laws they consider unjust. |
Revival | A meeting to reawaken religious faith. |
Second Great Awakening | A renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's. |
Temperance Movement | A campaign to stop the drinking of alchohol. |
Labor Union | A group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions. |
Strike | A stopping of work to demand better conditions. |
Horace Mann | A reformer who worked for education improvements. |
Dorothea Dix | A reformer who worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill. |
Abolition | The movement to end slavery. |
Frederick Douglass | An escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader. |
Sojourner Truth | Former slave who became an abolitionist and supporter of women's rights. |
Underground Railroad | An above-the-ground series of escape routes for runaway slaves from the South to the North. |
Harriet Tubman | The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
Elizabeht Cady Stanton | Leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. |
Seneca Falls Convention | Convention held in 1848 to argue for women's rights. |
Suffrage | The right to vote. |
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