Unit 4 American Studies Civil War & Reconstruction

Vocabulary

Economics 2.4.1Understands and analyzes the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources

• Cash crops• Cotton Kingdom• Famine• Inflation• Plantation• Sustainability

Economics 2.4.1Understands and analyzes the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources

• Cash crops – crop sold for money at market• “Cottonocracy”- name for wealthy planters who

made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s• Famine – severe food shortage• Inflation – a rise in prices and a decrease in the

value of money• Plantation – large estate farmed by many workers• Sustainability – quality of something keeping itself

going without intervention