Across
- 6. Slaves weren't allowed to learn to read or write because it would let them be able to ______ _______.
- 11. What effect did the cotton gin have on the Southern Economy?
- 12. Eli _______ created the cotton gin to clean out cotton more efficiently.
- 14. Removing seeds from cotton picked was ___________.
- 17. Cyrus McCormick created mechanical _______
- 20. Elias ____ created the sewing machine.
- 21. Those four states were called the ______ _______.
- 22. Many workers in Northern factories were __________
- 23. The cotton ___ could do the work of 50 people
- 25. What percent of slave owners had more than 50 slaves?
- 26. This European country also had 1 million immigrants come to the U.S.
- 27. The slave codes state that a slave can't own ___
- 28. Industry met a need of the _______ society
- 30. 75% of southern whites owned lands but had __ ______.
- 31. 33% of the southern population were ______
Down
- 1. _.________, Alabama, Texas,and Mississippi were where most cotton plantations were at.
- 2. 156,000 _____ of cotton were produced in 1800
- 3. The slave codes stated that slaves couldn't gather in groups of _____.
- 4. Who became political leaders because of their wealth?
- 5. The slave codes state that slaves couldn't leave their masters slaves house without a ____
- 7. 200,000 free blacks lived in the _____ in 1860
- 8. John Deere created the first ___________ steel plow.
- 9. Slave owners who treated their slaves "________", viewed them as valuable property
- 10. Most white southerners owned __ slaves
- 13. The percent of slave owners that had more than 50 slaves were called the what?
- 15. Fredrick Douglass and Denmark Vessey were 2 _______ _________ to resisted slavery
- 16. Samuel _____ created the telegraph
- 18. Yankee Clippers were _____ that made it possible to " win a large share of the world's sea trade in 1840's and 50's"
- 19. How many immigrants arrived in the U.S. in the 1840's and 1850's?
- 24. Because there was a famine in _______, 1.4 million immigrants came to the U.S.
- 29. Southern cotton was the ____ that the Industrial Revolution demanded.