Across
- 2. The year that majority of immigrants arrived to the US
- 4. Most factory workers in the north were ____.
- 5. John Deere made this invention to help farmers with crops
- 8. If you did own a slave you were called this
- 15. The cotton gin did the same amount of work of ___men.
- 16. These were restrictions that prevented slaves from escaping
- 20. The South felt____ on the North for success.
- 21. Ships that allowed us to win sea trade in the 1840's and 50's.
- 22. The nickname of the area that most plantations were located
- 24. The amount of slaves that were allowed per group
- 25. This type of power allowed us to have more goods at a lower cost
- 26. This country sent 50,000 people to the US in 1850; We fought them
- 27. the estimated percent of blacks living in the south
Down
- 1. the estimated amount of free blacks in the south during the 1860s
- 2. About how many Irish people came to the US?
- 3. This engine made railroads more efficient
- 6. Wooden rails were changed to ____ rails to make travel safer and faster
- 7. Some slaves that were carpenters and blacksmiths were known as____.
- 9. Owners didn't like having free blacks around because they thought they set an example to ____.
- 10. Slaves couldn't____or_____ because it made it harder for them to escape.
- 11. The southern crop that industry increased the demand for
- 12. What caused Irish people to move to the US?
- 13. What country also sent people to the US
- 14. The amount of slaves most southerners owned
- 16. The hardest part of harvesting cotton was removing the___.
- 17. He simplified the removal of cotton seeds by inventing the cotton gin.
- 18. The economy ____ in the south after the cotton gin.
- 19. Samuel Morse made this invention to help people message each other through a code
- 23. The approximate percent of people that owned slaves in the South
- 25. The invention Elias Howe made/Isaac Singer improved