Lessons 7.1 - 7.3: The Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 4. the first African American newspaper
  2. 5. laws passed by Southern states to prevent African American slaves from running away or rebelling
  3. 7. the nation where the Industrial Revolution began
  4. 9. a political party formed by nativists in the 1850s that was extremely hostile to immigrants coming to the United States
  5. 12. the American woman who formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in the 1840s
  6. 15. a skilled British mechanic who had worked in a textile mill before coming to the United States to share his knowledge and skills in running textile mills
  7. 17. the region of the United States in which the first American factories were built
  8. 19. a mechanical power which revolutionized transportation during the Industrial Revolution
  9. 22. a skilled, specialized worker
  10. 23. a type of fast ship launched in 1845 by John Griffiths that was very useful for quick transportation of goods between the United States and other parts of the world
  11. 24. an attitude which denies equal rights to certain peoples
  12. 25. a machine that efficiently separated the seeds of a cotton plant from its fibers
  13. 27. an occurrence in which union workers stop working until their managers agree to resolve their concerns
  14. 28. the nation which lost many of its potato crops to disease and suffered a severe famine in the 1840s, causing many of its people to immigrate to the United States
  15. 29. a person who starts a business to make a profit
  16. 30. the group of wealthy Southern families who owned 50 or more slaves
Down
  1. 1. the first African American allowed to practice law in the United States
  2. 2. one aspect of enslaved African American lives which gave them hope and which led to the creation of spirituals
  3. 3. the nation which experienced extreme food shortages between 1829 and 1830 and also rebels in 1848 who revolted for more democratic policies in this nation
  4. 6. an American inventor who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts and also invented the cotton gin
  5. 8. a Boston merchant who improved on British textile mills by building a factory that had everything needed to turn cotton into finished cloth
  6. 10. many Americans encouraged this concept as it supported new inventions
  7. 11. an American inventor who invented the "talking wire", or the telegraph
  8. 13. the first private university run and owned by African Americans
  9. 14. the state whose court stated, in 1842, that workers had the right to strike
  10. 16. an African American slave who led a major revolt in 1831 in Virginia, killing more than 57 whites in the process before being captured and hung
  11. 18. a group formed by artisans specialized in the same trade and which aimed to gain higher pay and better working conditions
  12. 20. the state which sincerely thought about ending slavery in 1831, but instead decided to increase restrictions against African Americans
  13. 21. a type of "close" family consisting of grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, children, and other relatives which has its orgins in Africa
  14. 26. the gradual movement of people from rural areas to cities