Across
- 2. was trying to enter the Union as a free state
- 6. president after James Madison
- 8. president after James Monroe
- 12. speaker of the House
- 15. trading port established at the mouth of the Columbia River
- 16. developed a power loom
- 17. principal attraction in the South
- 18. became a state in 1817
- 20. also known as the "Great American Desert"
- 21. chief justice of the Supreme Court
- 22. got most of the profits in trade with Indian fur traders
- 23. carried more cargo on the Mississippi than earlier transportation
Down
- 1. Spanish diplomat
- 3. became a state in 1819
- 4. won independence from Spain in 1821
- 5. the nation's biggest economic need after the war
- 7. was trying to enter the Union as a slave state
- 9. became a state in 1816
- 10. president after John Quincy Adams
- 11. became a state in 1818
- 13. Most were in New England
- 14. trapper who became an Ashley partner, was killed by Comanches
- 16. government factors supplied tribes with goods at a cost
- 19. place in Alabama and Mississippi where cotton could thrive
- 24. entered the Union in 1803
