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