Chapter 11 Crossword Terms

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Across
  1. 5. - Debates in Congress heated to the boiling point. Fearing a split in the Union, Henry Clay suggested the Missouri Compromise. Clay proposed that Maine, in the Northeast, enter the Union as a free state. Missouri could then enter as a slave state. This would keep an even balance of power in the Senate—12 free states and 12 slave states.
  2. 6. –Other inventions followed. In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The word gin is short for "engine." It quickly and easily removed the seeds from picked cotton and allowed a huge increase in cotton production.
  3. 7. - road on which tolls are collected
  4. 9. - economic activity taking place between two or more states
  5. 13. - economic system in which people and companies own the means of production
  6. 16. - Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians.
  7. 17. - a machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber.
  8. 18. - the official count of a population
Down
  1. 1. - a part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another identical part.
  2. 2. - served as a clear warning to European nations to keep out of the Americans
  3. 3. - a type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want
  4. 4. - separate compartment in which water levels rise and fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal
  5. 8. - an artificial waterway
  6. 10. - to transfer control of something
  7. 11. - money or other items, such as machines or buildings, used to create wealth
  8. 12. - sole legal right to an invention and its profits.
  9. 14. - a market where there is only one provider
  10. 15. - the official count of a population