Unit 4: At a Crossroads Vocabulary

a person who works to change something in order to improve it.

• Innovator

• Reformer

• Conservator

• Critic

formerly enslaved people who have been emancipated

• Freedpeople

• Liberated individuals

• Former slaves

• Emancipated persons

An African American who left the South to settle in Kansas or another western state

• Exoduster

• Migrant Worker

• Pioneer

• Settler

the right to vote

• Suffrage

• Franchise

• Electorate

• Ballot

a farming arrangement in which a farmer rents a plot of land and a house from a land owner

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

• Crop rotation

• Agricultural leasing

a type of tenant farming in which the tenant receives a share of the crop from the landowner as payment for labor

• Sharecropping

• Leasing

• Renting

• Crop Rotation

to put a person on a list with people viewed with suspicion or disapproval

• Whitelist

• Blacklist

• Graylist

• Watchlist

the practice of organizing in order to negotiate contracts and determine fair pay, benefits, hours, and safety policies

• Collective bargaining

• Individual negotiation

• Contractual agreement

• Workplace mediation

an organized group of workers formed to negotiate with employers for wages, work hours, benefits, and safer working conditions

• Labor Union

• Workers' Coalition

• Employee Association

• Trade Guild

the enforced separation of the races

• Integration

• Segregation

• Assimilation

• Discrimination