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Ch.14 vocab hm
Question | Answer |
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Emigrants | People who leave a country |
Immigrants | People who settle in a new country |
Steerage | The cheapest deck on a ship |
Push pull factors | These forces push people out of their native lands and pull them towards 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 foreign influence |
Romanticism | a writing style that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. It drew inspiration from nature. |
Hudson River School | a school of artists who painted lush, natural landscapes |
Transcendentalism | taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world |
civil disobedience | a peaceful refusal to obey laws that one considers unjust |
revival | a meeting to reawaken religious faith |
Second Great Awakening | the renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's |
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 | head of the first State Board of education in the US, called for public education |
Dorothea Dix | reformer from Boston who stood up for the mentally ill |
abolition | movement to end slavery |
Frederick Douglass | freed slave who was an abolitionist speaker |
Sojourner Truth | Abolitionist speaker, freed slave; went to court to recover her son from slavery |
Underground Railroad | an above ground series of escape routes for slaves from the south to the north |
Harriet Tubman | famous conductor of the underground railroad; former slave |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | part of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-slavery convention; was restricted from speaking because she was a woman; demanded equality for woman from men |
Seneca Falls Convention | a convention held by Stanton and Mott in 1848 for women's rights |
suffrage | the right to vote |