Slavery Short Story

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Across
  1. 2. The act of slowly ending slavery over time.
  2. 4. The process of building factories and growing industry.
  3. 7. The southern region where cotton farming was expanding quickly.
  4. 10. Places where goods were made using machines and workers.
  5. 11. A crop grown in large amounts and sold to other countries.
  6. 13. The region of the South where cotton was widely grown.
  7. 14. The crop that lost value and helped cause planters to look for new crops.
  8. 15. A plant that became the most valuable crop in the South during the 1800s.
Down
  1. 1. The group of wealthy farm owners who controlled large plantations.
  2. 3. The system in which people were forced to work without pay and freedom.
  3. 5. People from other countries who often moved to the North for work.
  4. 6. Large farms in the South where crops like cotton were grown.
  5. 8. The southern region that had more enslaved people than it needed.
  6. 9. Workers who are paid money for their labor.
  7. 12. Machines that helped turn cotton into cloth faster and cheaper.