Chapter 14 Vocabulary

A worker skilled in a craft (a)  

• Artisan
• Clipper ship
• Discrimination
• Extended Family

Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to-late nineteenth century rigged with vast canvas sails hung from tall masts.

• Artisan

• Clipper ship

• Discrimination

• Extended Family

Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its member

• Slave Code

• Clipper ship

• Discriminate

• Extended Family

A family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household.

• Famine

• Locomotive

• Discrimination

• Extended Family

An extreme shortage of food

• Famine

• Locomotive

• Nativist

• Extended Family

Person opposed to immigration

• Famine

• Strike

• Nativist

• Telegraph

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

• Slave Code

• Strike

• Nativist

• Telegraph

To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands (a)  

• Slave Code
• Strike
• Nativist
• Telegraph

Engine that pulls a railroad train

• Slave Code

• Strike

• Locomotive

• Telegraph

A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances

• Trade Union

• Strike

• Extended Family

• Telegraph