US History Unit 9

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Across
  1. 4. A skilled worker
  2. 5. Name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s.
  3. 12. Invented the steel plow
  4. 13. The idea that the government should have the smallest role possible in the economy
  5. 14. Launched the first clipper ship
  6. 15. A device that cut wheat from the field more effectively than a man could do.
  7. 18. opened 1825
  8. 19. Invented the sewing machine
  9. 20. A fast ship of the mid-1800s
  10. 21. An economic system based on the development of large-scale industries and produced large quantities.
  11. 23. A person who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the United States native born, white citizens.
Down
  1. 1. An engine that pulls a rail road train.
  2. 2. A political party of the 1800s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
  3. 3. Invented the telegraph
  4. 6. Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic human rights
  5. 7. A device invented by Eli Whitney that
  6. 8. invented: 1844
  7. 9. An association of trade workers formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.
  8. 10. Invented the mechanical reaper
  9. 11. A method to make steel stronger and cheaper.
  10. 16. A device that sends an electrical current through a wire.
  11. 17. A person who enters another country in order to settle there.
  12. 22. A refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.