Across
- 2. regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers and maintaining cotton gins and other equipment.
- 4. farmers that did not have slaves made up the largest group of whites in the South
- 8. an African American religious fold song
- 9. an apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages
- 10. a form of loan
- 12. unfair treatment of a group
- 15. refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers
- 16. people opposed to immigration. They felt that immigration threatened the future of “native” American born citizens.
- 17. a plantation manager
- 18. an extreme shortage of food
Down
- 1. farmers that rent the land and/or worked it for the landlord
- 3. a ship with sleek hulls and tall sails
- 5. a machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
- 6. an unfair opinion not based on facts
- 7. organizations of workers with the same trade or skill
- 11. the laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people
- 13. a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
- 14. money to invest in businesses