Across
- 2. groups of workers with the same trade or skill
- 3. a measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort
- 4. an extreme food shortage
- 8. the ability to read and write
- 11. sleek ship that cut time off of journeys
- 12. plantation managers
- 14. person opposed to immigration
- 16. an unfair opinion not based on facts
- 17. a system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
Down
- 1. the trade of enslaved people among states of the United State
- 5. unfair treatment
- 6. a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
- 7. laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
- 9. farmers who own a small farm
- 10. an African American religious folk song
- 13. a work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
- 15. a device that used electric signals to send messages