Industrial Revloution
Across
- 4. - The transformation of farming that resulted in the eighteenth century from the spread of crops
- 8. - High quality private roads used to move freight.
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Down
- 1. - the transformation of the economy, the environment, and living conditions occurring first in England in the 18th century
- 2. - An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers
- 3. - Children starting from age 5 or 6 used for work because they were cheep labor and docile, children worked 15-16 hour work days in dangerous conditions and were beaten if they performed a task wrong
- 5. - A system in which merchants delivered raw materials to crafts people and then picked up the finished product
- 6. - Rich landowners "enclosed" the land- consolidated their holdings and got parliament to give them title to the commons that in the past had been open to all.
- 7. - Canals, as well as coastlines and rivers, allowed transportation around Britain affordable and quick rather then a much more costly land rout