| A | B |
|---|
| Trade Unions | Organizations of workers with the same trade or skill who organized for better working conditions. |
| strikes | Refusal to work in order to put pressure on employers for better wages, etc. |
| prejudice | An unfair opinion not based on facts. |
| discrimination | unfair treatmentof a group. |
| communities | Areas where people live in neighborhoods, villages, or cities. |
| Henry Boyd | African American who owned a furniture manufacturing company. |
| Samuel Cornish & John Russwurm | Founded "Freedom's Journal", the first African American newspaper. |
| Macon Allen | First African American licensed to practice law in the U.S. |
| licensed | Given official authority |
| Sarah G. Bagley | Weaver from Mass. founded Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization |
| famine | An extreme shortage of food. |
| nativists | People opposed to immigration because it threatned native born citizens. |
| Know-Nothing Party | Secret anti-Catholic political party calling for stricter citizenship laws. |
