US History Unit 9

4. A skilled worker
5. Name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s.
12. Invented the steel plow
13. The idea that the government should have the smallest role possible in the economy
14. Launched the first clipper ship
15. A device that cut wheat from the field more effectively than a man could do.
18. opened 1825
19. Invented the sewing machine
20. A fast ship of the mid-1800s
21. An economic system based on the development of large-scale industries and produced large quantities.
23. A person who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the United States native born, white citizens.

1. An engine that pulls a rail road train.
2. A political party of the 1800s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
3. Invented the telegraph
6. Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic human rights
7. A device invented by Eli Whitney that
8. invented: 1844
9. An association of trade workers formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.
10. Invented the mechanical reaper
11. A method to make steel stronger and cheaper.
16. A device that sends an electrical current through a wire.
17. A person who enters another country in order to settle there.
22. A refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.