Ch.12 Vocabulary

ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journey

• innovation

• clipper ship

• telegraph

• strike

group of workers with the same trade, or skill

• telegraph

• morse code

• innovation

• trade union

a refusal to work

• morse code

• trade union

• strike

• discrimination

a system for sending messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation

• morse code

• strike

• clipper ship

• telegraph

a device that used electric signals to send messages

• morse code

• telegraph

• strike

• literacy

a new development or invention

• innovation

• discrimination

• morse code

• productivity

unfair treatment based on prejudice toward a certain race, ethnic group, religion, age group, or gender

• productivity

• nativists

• famine

• discrimination

an unfair opinion not based on facts

• prejudice

• strike

• nativists

• morse code

an extreme shortage of food

• overseer

• productivity

• nativists

• famine

person opposed to immigration, anti-immigrant

• famine

• spirituals

• Yeomen

• nativist