Across
- 7. The ability to read and write
- 9. A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort
- 10. To give an official authority to do something
- 11. to be short
- 13. The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
- 15. A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
- 16. To prepare
- 18. Farmer who owns a small town
- 19. A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
- 20. Group of workers with the same trade or skill
- 21. An extreme shortage of food
- 22. Unfair treatment
- 23. Ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped time from long journeys.
Down
- 1. A Result
- 2. A new development or invention
- 3. An unfair opinion not based on facts
- 4. Laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
- 5. An African American religious folk song
- 6. Plantation manager
- 8. Person opposed to immigration
- 12. A device that used electric signals to send messages
- 14. Group of people who live in the same area
- 17. A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer
- 24. Permitted by law