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Across 3. Home or family life. 5. Author who wrote "The American Scholar" (1837) 7. A machine for separating cotton from its seeds. 8. Method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution 11. A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire 12. The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. 13. The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants 14. A canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo 15. Female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Down 1. Second-largest group of immigrants in the U.S. in the 1800's 2. An idea that those who had success in America did so because they used their own intelligence and hard work. 4. England intellectuals who insisted on the primacy of individual judgement over existing social traditions and institutions. 6. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil. 9. A line of slaves chained together. 10. A settler with no legal title to the land occupied, typically one on land not yet allocated by a government