Across
- 2. Machine that removes seeds from cotton
- 3. Business leader who concentrated on oil refining
- 6. Act giving African Americans the same legal rights as whites
- 7. American poet who wrote popular story-poems like "The Song of Hiawatha"
- 9. Guarantees citizens equal protection of laws
- 15. Southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
- 16. Amendment giving African American men the right to vote
- 18. American writer most famous for his essay "Self-Reliance"
- 19. The amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States
- 22. Laws that enforced segregation
- 24. American poet best known for his poetry collection "Leaves of Grass"
Down
- 1. American writer best known for his novel The Scarlett Letter
- 2. Businesses leader who concentrated his efforts on steel production
- 4. Women's rights supporter who argued for equeal pay for equal work
- 5. Education reformer for the hearing impaired
- 8. Movement to have all children, regardless of background, taught in a common place
- 10. Inventor of the first affordable car and the moving assembly line
- 11. Brothers who made the first piloted flight in a gas-powered airplane
- 12. American writer best known for his short stories and poetry, like The Raven
- 13. Inventor who created the electric lightbulb
- 14. Process of manufacturing steel cheaply and quickly
- 17. Inventor of the telephone
- 20. American writer most famous for the transcendental ideas he summarized in Walden
- 21. Prison Reformer
- 23. Author of the antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin