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The American Journey
"DMS" The American Journey Ch.13
| terms | definitions |
|---|---|
| clipper ship | sailing ships with sleek hulls and tall sails that could sail very fast |
| telegraph | a faster method of communication that transmitted messages using electrical signals |
| Morse code | a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet and used with the telegraph |
| trade union | workers from the same trade or skill form a union to improve their working conditions |
| strike | refusing to work in order to put pressure on their employers |
| prejudice | unfair opinion about a group that is not based on facts |
| descrimination | unfair treatment of a group |
| famine | extreme shortage of food |
| nativists | American born citizens that felt immigrations threatened their future |
| cotton gin | a machine that removes seed from cotton fibers – allowed farmers to increase their production of cotton |
| capital | money that is invested in businesses |
| yeoman | made up the largest group of whites in the South – most owned land |
| tenant farmer | whites that rented land or worked on land from landlords’ estates |
| fixed cost | regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers and maintaining cotton gins and other equipment that remained the same year after year. |
| credit | form of a loan |
| overseer | plantation manager that supervised the work of the African American slaves on a farm |
| spiritual | an African American religious folk song |
| slave code | laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people |
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