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Chapter 14 All
U.S. History
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History
8th Grade
03/04/2011

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Emigrant
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Someone exiting a country
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Immigrant
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Someone coming in to a country
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Steerage
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The cheapest form of travel on a ship
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Push-Pull Factor
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Something that makes you leave one country and go to another
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Famine
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A severe shortage of food
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Prejudice
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A negative opinion not based on facts
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Nativists
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People who refused to hire immigrants
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Know Nothing Party
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Wanted to ban Catholics and foreigners
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Romanticism
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Time period of painting beauty not just history
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Hudson River School
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School to study painting landscapes and romanticism objects
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Henry David Thoreau
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Refused to pay taxes and was thrown in jail (Civil Disobedience)
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Transcendentalism
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A belief that EVERYTHING is God
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Civil Disobedience
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Refusing to obey the law when you think they are wrong
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Transcendentalist Writers
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Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville (Believed that God is a feeling inside you)
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Revival
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A meeting to reawaken religious faith
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Second Great Awakening
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A religious time period between 1790’s and early 1800’s where they preached sin was selfishness
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Temperance Movement
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A movement to stop people from drinking alcohol
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Labor Union
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A group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
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Strike
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When workers stop working to get better working conditions
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Horace Mann
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Started public education-called it the great equalizer
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Dorethea Dix
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A reformer who was teaching Sunday school in prison and realized the abuse of the mentally insane, she started mental hospitals
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Penny Papers
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Another name for the newspaper
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Utopia
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An ideal society in New Harmony, Indiana where everyone shared everything
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Shakers
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A religious group that shook with emotion, they made furniture and didn’t believe in marriage or having children
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Abolition
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An attempt to end slavery
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Frederick Douglass
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Slave who escaped north at 16. Wrote “An American Slave and The North Star”
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Sojourner Truth
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Slave who spoke against slavery
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Underground Railroad
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Secret way for slaves to escape to Canada from slavery
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Harriet Tubman
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Conductor on the Underground RR (railroad)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Fought for women’s right to vote called suffrage
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Seneca Falls Convention
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1st Women’s rights convention
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Suffrage
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Women’s right to vote-19th amendment gave women this right
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Wrote The Liberator the first anti-slavery newspaper
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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Spoke against slavery (abolitionist)
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Lucretia Mott
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Women’s rights advocate
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