Across
- 2. The act of slowly ending slavery over time.
- 4. The process of building factories and growing industry.
- 7. The southern region where cotton farming was expanding quickly.
- 10. Places where goods were made using machines and workers.
- 11. A crop grown in large amounts and sold to other countries.
- 13. The region of the South where cotton was widely grown.
- 14. The crop that lost value and helped cause planters to look for new crops.
- 15. A plant that became the most valuable crop in the South during the 1800s.
Down
- 1. The group of wealthy farm owners who controlled large plantations.
- 3. The system in which people were forced to work without pay and freedom.
- 5. People from other countries who often moved to the North for work.
- 6. Large farms in the South where crops like cotton were grown.
- 8. The southern region that had more enslaved people than it needed.
- 9. Workers who are paid money for their labor.
- 12. Machines that helped turn cotton into cloth faster and cheaper.