Across
- 5. a raw material or agricultural product that can be bought and sold
- 8. large scale buying and selling
- 9. a state where having slaves was illegal
- 11. land set aside by the US government for the use of by American Indians
- 15. a waterway built by people to connect rivers, lakes, and oceans
- 16. machine invented to remove seeds from cotton
- 17. a ruler with total power over a country and its people
- 18. state that declared its independence from Mexico
- 19. land bought from France that doubled the size of America
Down
- 1. a person who is the first to do something, such as living in a new place
- 2. the continent
- 3. to giver up territory to another country
- 4. a four-wheeled, horse-drawn coach used in the past to carry mail and passengers
- 6. the belief in the 1800's that Americans were meant to expand westward
- 7. states where having slaves was legal
- 10. one of the leaders of the underground railroad, a former slave, and abolitionist
- 12. first major canal built in America
- 13. practice of making people work all their lives for no money
- 14. last name of man who invented the cotton gin