| A | B |
|---|
| Emigrant | Someone who leaves or “exits” their country to live somewhere else |
| Immigrant | Someone who enters a new country to live |
| Steerage | The bottom level of a ship; usually the cheapest way to travel |
| Push-Pull Factor | Reasons to leave their country origin. Either be forced out (push) or be attracted by something in another country (pull). |
| Famine | Widespread scarcity of food |
| Prejudice | Preconceived judgment about someone made without fact |
| Nativist | Someone who worked to preserve the American way and was usually against any new immigrants |
| Temperance Movement | A movement to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Labor Union | A group of workers who negotiate for better working conditions |
| Strike | A stoppage of work to fight for better working conditions |
| Horace Mann | Leader of the first state board of education in Massachusetts |
| Dorothea Dix | Led the movement to improve conditions for the mentally ill. Helped create many new hospitals |
| Abolition | Putting an end to slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave, abolitionist leader and helped fight for women’s rights |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave, abolitionist and helped fight for women’s rights |
| Underground Railroad | A series of secret paths to freedom |
| Harriet Tubman | “Conductor” on the Underground Railroad, helped about 300 slaves to freedom |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leader of the Women’s rights or suffrage movement |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Meeting in NY State to discuss Women’s Rights |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
