Chapter 15 Vocab Flashcards
Utopian community
Place where people worked to establish a perfect society
Transcendentalism
Idea that people can rise above the material things in life
Nativist
US citizens who oppose immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants in fear of losing jobs to them
Middle class
Social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor
Tenements
Poorly built over crowded housing where many immigrants lived
Temperance movement
Social reform effort began in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol
Common school movement
Social reform efforts begin in the mid-1800s that promoted the idea of having all children educated and Children in a common place regardless of social classes or background
Abolition
An end to Slavery
Emancipation
Freedom from slavery
