Across
- 3. What crop was incredibly important for the industrial revolution and grown in the south.
- 4. One of the major lines was in ______ Illinois.
- 5. Most immigrants when they came to America worked in _______.
- 7. This slave led a bloody but unsuccessful revolt in the 1800s.
- 8. The nickname of the region where most of the cotton plantations are were called the _____ ______ (Two Words).
- 11. In order to produce things faster and cheaper factories used ____ ____.
- 12. Around 1829 railroads became more useful, so to make them safer and faster the _______ ______ was invented.
- 14. The cotton gin invented by ___ _______ was ammach9ine made to make it easier to get the seeds out when picking cotton.
Down
- 1. One of the states that had the most cotton plantations is _________.
- 2. The invention of the cotton gin was great for the economy of the south and made it ___ at a rapid pace.
- 3. What machine could do the work of 50 men.
- 6. It was said that the cotton gin could do the work of ____ men.
- 8. Before steam ships were made in order to win a large share of the world’s sea trade in 1840’s and 50’s we invented _____ _____.
- 9. A lot of immigrants came from _____ because of a famine in crops.
- 10. Which other European country immigrated around the same time as Ireland?
- 13. When slaves were picking cotton they often had trouble getting the _____ out.
- 15. Samuel Morse made communicating over vast areas possible and expanding trade.