Across
- 1. period of time before the US Civil War
- 6. a person who favors the end of slavery
- 8. act of ending or stopping a system
- 10. a machine that revolutionized American agriculture by efficiently separating seeds from short-staple cotton fiber.
- 11. a large-scale agricultural estate, typically located in tropical or semi-tropical regions, dedicated to cultivating cash crops like cotton, tobacco, coffee, or sugar cane, often utilizing coerced labor.
- 13. state of being an enslaved person
- 14. purchase of territory by the USA from France in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson
- 15. an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.
Down
- 2. a 400-year, systematic, forced migration of 12–15 million African people to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries, primarily carried out by Portuguese, British, French, and Spanish traders.
- 3. an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
- 4. the systematic buying, selling, and forced migration of over one million enslaved people within the United States, driven by the expanding cotton economy.
- 5. 19th century belief that expansion of the US throughout the North American continent was justified
- 7. to make money or be beneficial in other ways.
- 9. wealth and resources of a nation
- 12. a system in which people are forcibly controlled, denied freedom, and treated as property by others.