Benchmark 1 Vocab (Antebellum)

Reformers who sought to end slavery

• abolitionists

• telegraph

• Morse Code

• trade union

The right for women to vote in elections

• prejudice

• telegraph

• suffrage

• discrimination

Plantation manager

• suffrage

• overseer

• trade union

• strike

The amount a worker can produce in a given time

• prejudice

• discrimination

• trade union

• productivity

An unfair opinion of a group

• discrimination

• prejudice

• strike

• suffrage

A device that used electric signals to send messages

• Morse Code

• overseer

• telegraph

• discrimination

A group of workers with the same trade, or skill

• trade union

• discrimination

• Underground Railroad

• suffrage

A system for sending messages that used a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers and punctuation 

• telegraph

• Morse Code

• strike

• trade union

Network of escape routes for slaves from the South to the North

• telegraphe

• Morse Code

• Underground Railroad

• suffrage

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group 

• discrimination

• prejudice

• strike

• overseer