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ch 14 ec
Word | Defenition |
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emigrant | people who leave a country |
immigrant | people who settle in a new country |
steerage | the cheapest deck on a ship |
push-pull factor | forces that push people out of thir native lands and pull them towards another |
famine | severe food shortage |
prejudice | negative opinion not based on facts |
nativists | people who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
romanticism | a style of art |
Hudson River School | a school of artists |
transcendentalism | teaching that spiritual world is more important than the real one |
civil disobediance | form of protesting that involves refusing to obey laws |
revival | meeting to awaken religeous beleif |
Second Great Awakening | a great renewal of faith in the 1790's and early 1800's |
temperance movement | campaign to stop the drinking of alchohal |
labor union | group of workers banding together to seek better working conditions |
strike | stopping work to demand better conditions |
Horace Mann | called for public education |
Dorotha Dix | taught Sunday school in a woman's jail |