Ch 12 Key Terms & People
Across
- 4. first full-sized commercial steamboat
- 5. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
- 7. parts of a machine that are identical
- 9. Supreme Court case in 1824
- 10. improved the way textiles were manufactured in the U.S.
- 12. Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
- 13. efficient production or large numbers of identical goods
- 14. period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production
- 16. invented the water frame
- 20. device that could send information over wires across great distances
- 22. cloth items
Down
- 1. built a locomotive called the Tom Thumb
- 2. gave officials a proposal for mass-production of guns
- 3. perfected the telegraph
- 6. period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel
- 8. invented the plow
- 11. tools used to produce items or do work
- 15. made improvements to the sewing machine
- 17. developed the reaper
- 18. created the first steamboat
- 19. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- 21. refusal to work until employers meet employees demands