Across
- 2. _____ made the telegraph
- 3. _____ made mechanical reapers
- 6. an English family developed a _____ powered locomotive engine to pull rail cars
- 7. One cotton gin could do the work of 50 _____
- 8. who invented the cotton gin?
- 11. ____ had about 1 million of their people arrive in the US around the same time Ireland came.
- 12. How many immigrants arrived in the 1840's and 50's?
- 14. New York, _____, and Cincinnati became major hubs
- 16. 1850 was the year the most _____ came to the US.
- 17. about 2100 ___ of cotton were produced in the US in 1850.
- 18. most white ____ owned atleast a few slaves
Down
- 1. Why did 1.5 million immigrants from Ireland come to the US?
- 4. this ship made it possible to win a large share of the world’s sea trade in 1840’s and 50’s
- 5. 1% of southerners were ____ slave owners with atleast 50 slaves.
- 6. Eliase Howe and Isaac Singer made the _____
- 9. this advancement made railroads safer and faster
- 10. the more the ____ the more the cotton
- 13. The industrial revolution demanded this crop
- 15. over 200,000 ___ blacks lived in the south around 1860.