Unit 8 Vocab

Parts or components that are identical for practical purposes. 

• Overseer

• Textiles

• Interchangeable Parts

Yeoman

• A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate.  

• A type of mid-19th century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. 

• Right to vote?

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

• Textile

• Strike

• Trade Union

 A machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

• Cotton Gin

• Normal School

• Revival

Right to vote

• Utopia

• Abolition

• Suffrage

Overseer

• An institution created to train teachers.

• A person who supervises others, especially workers.

• A track made of steel rails along which trains run, a railroad.

19^th amendment

• Grated the right for women to vote.

• The act of officially ending or stopping something.

• The right to vote in political elections

Civil disobedience

• An alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and shirt signals of light or sound.

• The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

• An institution created to train teachers.

Normal school was An institution created to train teachers

• True

• False

Cotton belt

• A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.

• A story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.

• A region of the US south where cotton is the historic main crop, especially in parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.