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Across 1. First Ten Amendments to the Constitution 4. Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short staple cotton 5. Spanish colonists in California in the 1800's 6. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery 8. An antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed Northerners the violent reality of slavery 9. The purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that doubled the size of the United States 10. Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty 12. A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid 1800's 14. A revolution led by Francisco Madero in 1910 that eventually forced the Mexican dictator Diaz to resign

Down 2. A system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid 1800's in which whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks 3. An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state 7. A set of basic principles that determine the powers and duties of a government 9. The youth of water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800's 11. An end to slavery 13. to formally withdraw from the union