Ch 14 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Emigrant | a person who leaves a counrty |
| immigrant | a person who settles in a new country |
| steerage | the cheapest deck or place on a ship |
| push-pull factor | a factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them towards a new place |
| famine | a severe food shortage |
| prejudice | a negative opinion that is not baced on facts |
| nativist | a native born american who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
| romanticism | a European artistic movement that stressed the indavidual, imagination, creativity |
| Hudson River school | a group of artists living in the Hudson River Valley in New York |
| trancendentalism | philosophy that taught the spiritual world is more important than the physical world |
| civil diobedience | peacful refusing to obey laws one considers unjust |
| revival | a meeting designed to reawaken religous faith |
| second great awakening | the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s |
| temperance movement | a campaign to stop the drinking fo alcohol |
| labor union | a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions |
| strike | to stop work to demand better working conditions |
| Horace Mann | the head of the state board of eduacation |
| Dorthea Dix | she was a teacher and tryed to help mentally ill women |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| Fredrick Douglass | an abolitionist speaker |
| Sojourner Truth | an abolitionist speaker |
| Underground railroad | a series of escape routs usedby slaves escaping the south |
| Harriet Tubman | she was a conductor for the underground railroad |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a womans rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
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