Vocabulary 1
Unfair treatment
What is discrimination?
Person opposed to immigration
What is a nativist?
The ability to read and write
What is literacy?
An unfair opinion not based on facts
What is prejudice?
Person who leaves his or her homeland to move elsewhere
What is an emigrant?
A device that used electric signals to send messages
What is a telegraph?
An extreme shortage of food
What is a famine?
Laws in Southern states that controlled enslaved people
What are slave codes?
A refusal to work in order to force an employer to make a change
What is a strike?
A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
What is Morse Code?
Group of workers with the same skill
What is a trade union?
A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time
What is productivity?
African American religious song
What is a spiritual?
Farmers who owned small farms
What is a yeoman?
Plantation manager
What is an overseer?