Chapter 14
Lesson 1
Clipper Ship
Definition: Ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that "clipped" time from long journeys.
Telegraph
Definition: A device that used electric signals to send messages.
Morse Code
Definition: A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet.
Trade Union
Definition: Group of workers with the same trade, or skill.
Strike
Definition: A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer.
Prejudice
Definition: an unfair opinion not based on facts.
Discrimination
Definition: unfair treatment
Famine
Definition: An extreme shortage of food.
Nativist
Definition: person opposed to immigration
Productivity
Definition: A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort.
Domestic Slave Trade
Definition: The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States.
Yeomen
Definition: Farmer who owns a small farm.
Overseer
Definition: Plantation Manager
Spiritual
Definition: an African American religious folk song.
Slave Code
Definition: Laws in a southern state that controlled enslaved people.
Underground Railroad
Definition: A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped.
Literacy
Definition: The ability to read and write.
Revival
Definition: Religious meeting
Utopia
Definition: Community based on a vision of the perfect society.
Temperance
Definition: Drinking little or no alcohol.
Normal School
Definition: State-supported school for training school training high school graduates to become teachers.
Civil Disobedience
Definition: Refusing to obey laws considered unjust.
Abolitionist
Definition: Person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1800's