Unit 3 Vocab

occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War

loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole

a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority

 a grouping based on similar social factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation

 farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop

farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdingsSubsistence farming

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower

the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean, mainly to the Americas

the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution