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| Morse code | system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the alphabet and numbers |
| capital | money to invest in business |
| clipper ship | a fast sailing ship with slender lines, tall masts and large, square sails |
| cotton gin | a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber |
| credit | a form of loan, ability to buy goods based on future payment |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a group; unequal treatment because of a person's race, religion, ethnic background or place of birth |
| famine | an extreme shortage of food |
| fixed cost | regular expenses such as housing or maintaining equipment that remain the same year after year |
| nativist | a person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants |
| overseer | person who supervises a large operation or its workers |
| prejudice | an unfair opinion not based on facts |
| slave code | the laws passed in the Southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people |
| spiritual | an African American religious fold song |
| strike | a stopping of work by workers to force an employer to meet demands |
| telegraph | a device or system that uses electrical signals to transmit messages by a code over wires |
| tenant farmer | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| trade union | organization of workers with the same trade or skill |
| yeoman | Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people |
