Chapter 14

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Seneca Falls

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Women's rights convention was held here.

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She investigated care of the mentally ill.

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Dorothea Dix

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Revival

Back 3

Meeting to reawaken religious faith

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"Pull Factor" for immigrants to U.S.

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Land, economic opportunity, freedom

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"Push Factor" for immigrants

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Overcrowding, Hunger, No Work, Religious turmoil

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Temperance

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Social movement to stop the use of alcohol

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Labor Union

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Organization of workers

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Famine

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Reason why many Irish emigrated

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Strike

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Stop work strategy to improve job conditions

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Nativists

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Native-born Americans who joined the 1850s Know-Nothing Party; anti-immigration group

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Steerage

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Deck for the poorest ship passengers and deplorable conditions

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Prejudice

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Negative opinion not based on facts

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Abolition

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Movement to end slavery

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Thoreau

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A transcendentalist who wrote Walden

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Whitman

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He praised ordinary people in poetry

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German

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The largest immigrant group that traveled to US in 1800s

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Utopia

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An ideal society

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Immigrant

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A person who settles in a new country

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"Push-Pull" Factors

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Term for the forces that make people emigrate from their native lands and influence them to settle in new places

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Famine

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A severe food shortage

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Romanticism

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A European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity and emotion

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Transcendentalism

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A 19th Century philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world

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Civil Disobedience

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Peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust

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Revival

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A meeting designed to reawaken religious faith

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Second Great Awakening

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The renewal of religious faith in the 1700s and early 1800s that stressed that anyone could choose salvation

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Temperance Movement

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A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol

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Labor Union

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An organization of workers who contracts for better working conditions

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Frederick Douglass

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Public speaker and lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; he published an autobiography of his slave experience

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Sojourner Truth

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An abolitionist speaker who drew huge crowds and who won a court battle to regain her son from slavery

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Underground Railroad

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A series of escape routes used by slaves heading to the North from the South

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Womens Rights convention planned by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York in 1848

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Suffrage

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The Right to Vote

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Scandinavians

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Immigrated to the US because they wanted land

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Germans

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Immigrated to the US because they needed economic opportunity

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Irish

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Immigrated to the US because they fled famine

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Horace Mann

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Head of the 1st state board of education in the US