Social Studies Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Inventor of the telegraph. Devised a code known as the “Morse code”
  2. 4. Widespread starvation
  3. 6. In 1755, Boone and a party of 30 men cleared a new route to the West
  4. 7. Laws that controlled every aspect of their lives
  5. 8. Roads made of sawed-off logs, laid side by side
  6. 10. Used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers
  7. 12. A channel that is dug across land and filled with water
  8. 14. Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers
  9. 15. Led the most famous slave revolt in 1831
  10. 17. Built and improved version of the English machines
  11. 18. Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery
  12. 19. Toll roads
  13. 20. Clay A channel that is dug across land and filled with water
Down
  1. 1. The growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities
  2. 3. The rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects
  3. 5. Gradually, machines took the place of many hand tools
  4. 8. People who invest capital, or money in a business to earn a profit
  5. 9. Brings workers and machinery together in one place
  6. 11. Denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people
  7. 13. People who wanted to preserve the country for white American-born protestants
  8. 16. A device that used electrical signals to send messages