Ch. 14 Vocabulary

a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet

• Slave codes

• Famine

• Morse code

• Trade union

an African American religious folk song

• Spiritual

• Prejudice

• Telegraph

• Literacy

a work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer

• Telegraph

• Spiritual

• Prejudice

• Strike

an extreme shortage of food

• Yeoman

• Famine

• Nativist

• Morse code

a device that used electric signals to send messages

• Literacy

• Telegraph

• Prejudice

• Spiritual

farmer who owns a small farm

• Slave codes

• Yeoman

• Nativist

• Trade union

the ability to read and write

• Literacy

• Spiritual

• Prejudice

• Telegraph

plantation manager

• Literacy

• Spiritual

• Overseer

• Prejudice

laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people

• Yeoman

• Trade union

• Nativist

• Slave codes

person opposed to immigration

• Yeoman

• Trade Union

• Slave codes

• Nativist