US History Chapter 14 Vocabulary

sleek ship with taller sails and better hulls for faster travel

• Cutty Shark

• Clipper Ship

• Steamboat

• Stern Ship

a device that used electric signals to send messages

• telephone

• telegraph

• info-graph

• tele-market

a system of dots and dashes that represents the alphabet

• Morse Code

• Edison Code

• Marconi Code

• Atlantic Code

a group of workers with the same trade or skill

• trade union

• labor union

• trade group

• artisan group

a work stoppage by employees to protest an employer

• strike

• union

• protest

• picketing

an unfair opinion not based in fact

• prejudice

• appeal

• nativism

• famine

unfair treatment

• prejudice

• discrimination

• strike

• unionism

an extreme shortage of food

• famine

• strike

• discrimination

• nativist

a person opposed to immigration

• nativist

• racist

• unionist

• stereotype

a measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort

• productivity

• nativism

• prejudice

• literacy