Across
- 2. free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 4. British civilian organization created during World War II so women could work in agriculture
- 10. large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides and high-yield crop varieties
- 12. treaty between Canada, Mexico and the United States which eliminated most tariffs between the counties
- 13. action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way
- 14. farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing
Down
- 1. vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war
- 3. 19th-century doctrine or belief stating the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- 5. colorless, volatile and flammable liquid which is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars
- 6. estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco were cultivated by resident labor
- 7. act or means of sealing off a place to prevent foods or people from entering or leaving
- 8. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
- 9. ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 11. area of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado and Texas affected by severe soil erosion, caused by drought and relentless windstorms, in the 1930s