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| Fast sailing ship that could sail 300 miles per day and "clipped" time from long journeys. |
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| Machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber. |
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| Form of a loan; Ability to buy goods based on future payment. |
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| Unfair treatment of a group because of race, religion, ethnicity, or place of birth. |
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| Extreme shortage of food. |
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| Regular expenses that remain the same all year. |
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| System for transmitting messages using a series of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers. |
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| Person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants. |
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| Person who supervises a large operation or its workers. |
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| Unfair opinion not based on facts. |
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| Laws passed in the South that controlled and restricted enslaved people. |
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| African American religious folk song. |
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| Stopping of work by workers to force employer to meet demands. |
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| Device or system that uses electric signals to transmit messages by code through wires. |
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| Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in cash and other crops. |
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| Organization of workers with the same trade or skill. |
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| Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people. |
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