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Across 1. A toll road 6. Laws that controlled every aspect of a slave's life, and treated them not as people, but as things 7. Country that saw a great famine in the year 1845. A fungus destroyed the country's potato crop, causing nearly one million people to starve to death, and another million to immigrate elsewhere 10. Successful canal that allowed products from the Midwest to be shipped down the Hudson River to New York City 12. Roads made of sawed-off logs, laid side by side 14. Persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise 16. Widespread starvation 17. A channel that is dug across land and filled with water 19. A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances 21. Change that saw many hand tools be replaced by machines. Power that was once provided by people and horses were replaced with flowing water and later by steam engines 23. Used a steam engine to power a boat (The Clermont) 24. A political party that eventually developed from a secret group of Nativists 25. People who invest capital, or money, in a business to earn a profit 26. The first newspaper owned and operated by African-Americans 27. Rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products 28. Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

Down 2. People who wanted to preserve America for white, American-born Protestants 3. Leader of the most famous slave revolt in which roughly 60 white men were killed 4. Permitted Maine to enter the country as a Free State and Missouri as a Slave State, thus preserving the balance of Free and Slave states in America. 5. Brought workers and machinery together in one place by requiring workers to go to factories and begin and end work at specific hours of the day. 8. Invented to the telegraph (and Morse Code) 9. A young apprentice who memorized the secrets of Britain's textile machines and immigrated to the United States, thus beginning America's Industrial Revolution 11. Invented the mechanical reaper, which made it easier to cut stalks of wheat 13. Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers 15. The growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities in search of work 18. Denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people 20. Inventor of the Cotton Gin 22. The Industrial Revolution began in this country first, then made it's way to America