Across
- 5. meant businessmen could create corporations without applying for individual charters from legislature
- 8. worked 6 days a week for 12-13 hours a day
- 12. people that believed all people (white men) should be equal (rights + opportunities)
- 14. established to carry mail speedily 2000 miles
- 15. transformed the economy of farms and workshops
- 16. swept through 19th century Europe
- 17. made ideal pasture for livestock and lured thousands more American homesteaders into Kentucky
- 18. 363 miles, began in 1817; finished in 1825
- 19. were faster but had less cargo space
- 20. labor unions were not illegal conspiracies, their methods were "honorable and peaceful"
Down
- 1. a semisecret society founded in Ireland to fight rapacious landlords
- 2. written in 1836 by Maria Monk that described shocking sins people imagined the cloisters concealed
- 3. aided the concentration of capital by permitting the individual investor
- 4. who built the cotton gin?
- 6. rose to the 1st place religion in the 1850's
- 7. who was the "Father of the Factory System" in America?
- 9. powerful New York city machine
- 10. American "nativists" formed the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
- 11. Ralph Waldo Emerson's popular lecture essay
- 13. a tollgate that inspired a NorthEast movement for graded and paved roads after its completion