| A | B |
|---|
| sharecropper | a farmer who worked on land owned by someone else |
| credit | borrowed money |
| interest | extra money charged to borrow money |
| fertilizer | chemicals that put nutrients back in the soil |
| boll weevil | an insect that eats cotton |
| timber industry | cutting and sellling trees |
| long-leaf pine | Alabama state tree |
| blast furnace | machine for melting minerals to make iron |
| immigrants | people who have come to live in America from other countries |
| cotton mills | factories for making cotton cloth |
