7.1 - 7.3 History Crossword Puzzle

4. Invention that caused a "boom" in cotton production.
6. The first factories were built in the _________ in states.
7. Machine that could spin several threads at once
10. Railroads also greatly increased the size of the American ___________ and fueled even more factory production.
11. New machines made it possible to produce more goods at a lower ________, attracting eager buys.
12. The ___________ provided a boost to American industries due to the British blockade cutting off foreign supplies for Americans.
13. Invented the cotton gin.
15. Definition: A person who enters a new country to settle there.
18. Definition: Invested money.
20. Definition: Creating new ways of doing things.
21. Definition: A device that sends electrical signals along a wire to communicate with others.
22. Groups that led workers to organize for an improvement in conditions in the workplace.
23. Cotton was the South’s most profitable ________.
24. Women and children hired in the mills because they were cheap labor and were willing to work in dangerous conditions for economic freedom.

1. Enslaved African Americans had no ________ at all.
2. Definition: Cotton plantations extended in a belt from South Carolina to Texas.
3. Definition: A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
5. Definition: Wealthy planter family owned 50 or more enslaved workers and made huge amounts of money from cotton.
8. Definition: Tools that make use of advanced knowledge.
9. Definition: Movement of the population from rural areas to cities.
14. Invented the electric motor.
16. Because the South relied on ___________, most of the industry in the South existed around the needs of an agrarian society.
17. Definition: A person who invests in a business to make profit.
19. Southern states passed laws known as __________ to keep enslaved African Americans from either running away or rebelling.