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Ch 14 Vocab SS
Question | Answer |
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Emigrant | People who leave a country |
Immigrant | People who settle in a new country |
Steerage | The cheapest deck in a ship |
Push-pull factor | Pushes people our of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place |
Famine | A severe food storage |
Prejudice | A negative opinion that is not based on facts |
Nativist | Native brim Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
Romanticism | European artistic movement that stressed and individual immigration, creativity, and emotion |
Hudson river school | A group of artists living in the hudson river valley in new york |
Transcendentalism | 19th century philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world |
Civil disobedience | peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust |
Revival | Meeting to reawaken religious faith |
Second great awakening | the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s |
Temperance movement | A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol |
Labor union | is a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions |
Strike | stopping work to demand better conditions |
Horace Mann | head of state board education |
Dorothea Dix | a reformer from boston was teaching sunday school and a women's jail |
Abolition | the movement to end slavery began in late 1700s |
Fredrick Douglass | abolitionist speakers |
Sojourner Railroad | abolitionist speakers |
Harrit Tubman | One of the most famous railroad conductors |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Abolitionist |
Senca Falls | for women's rights in seneca fall new yore on july 19 and 20 1848 |
Suffrage | right to vote |
Underground railroad | above ground series of escape routes from the south to north |