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Ch 14 vocab
Question | Answer |
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people who leave a country | emigrants |
people who settle in a new country | immigrants |
cheapest deck on a ship | steerage |
forces that push people out of their native lands and pull them toward a new place | push-pull factor |
a disease | famine |
negative opinion that is not based on facts | prejudice |
native born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence | nativists |
stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion | romanticism |
the first coherent school of American art,active from 1825 to 1870 | Hudson River School |
taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world | transcendentalism |
instead of protesting with violence, they should peacefully refuse to obey those laws | civil disobedience |
meeting to reawaken religious faith | revival |
renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s | Second Great Awakening |
a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol | temperance movement |
group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions | labor union |
stopping work to demand better conditions | strike |
head of the first state board of education in the U.S. | Horace Mann |
reformer from Boston | Dorothea Dix |
movement to end slavery | abolition |
moving abolitionist speaker | Frederick Douglass |
moving abolitionist speaker | Sojourner Truth |
aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North | Underground Railroad |
one of the most famous conductors (people who led the runaways to freedom) | Harriet Tubman |
a women abolitionist | Elizabeth Cady Stantion |
a women's right convention held in Seneca Falls,New York in 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
the right to vote | suffrage |