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