Crossword Chapter 11 terms

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Across
  1. 3. a machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber.
  2. 5. enterprise a type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want
  3. 7. the official count of a population
  4. 8. served as a clear warning to European nations to keep out of the Americans.
  5. 9. sole legal right to an invention and its profits.
  6. 11. 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.
  7. 13. commerce economic activity taking place between two or more states
  8. 16. economic system in which people and companies own the means of production
  9. 17. money or other items, such as machines or buildings, used to create wealth
Down
  1. 1. separate compartment in which water levels rise and fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal
  2. 2. a part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another identical part.
  3. 3. to transfer control of something
  4. 4. the official count of a population
  5. 6. Whitney 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.
  6. 10. road on which tolls are collected
  7. 12. a market where there is only one provider
  8. 14. 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.
  9. 15. an artificial waterway