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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 their native land and pull them towards a new place
famine a disease that caused a severe food storage
prejudice a negative opinion that is not based on facts
nativist Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
romanticism A style of European art that stressed the individual, creativity, and emotion and drew inspiration from nature
Hudson River school a group of painters influenced by romanticism worked near the Hudson River in New York State that painted lush natural landscapes
transcendentalism taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world
civil disobedience protesting through peacefully refuse to obey those laws
revival meeting of reawakened religous faith
Second Great Awakening the renewal of religous faith in the 1790s and early 1800s
temperance movement a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
labor union a group of workers who banded together to seek better working conditions
strike stopping work to demand better conditions
Horace Mann headed
Dorothea Dix a reformer in Boston who found that some women locked in jails were just mentally ill
abolition the movement to end slavery
Frederick Douglass moving abolitionist speaker who began to publish and antislavery newspaper and spoke of his own experience with slavery
Sojourner Truth was born enslaved and fled from her owners and went to live with Quakers who set her free and helped recover her son and spoke of abolition
Underground Railroad an aboveground series of escape routes from the South and the North
Harriet Tubman a conductor of the runaways that led to freedom and escaped her owner before being sold
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was part of an American delegation that attended the Worls Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840
Seneca Falls Convention held for women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 and 20, 1848
suffrage the right to vote
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