Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Popularized the phrase "Industrial Revolution"
  2. 3. How many new forms of transportation were powered
  3. 6. President during the Mex./American War
  4. 8. did not want Texas admitted as a state to the US because it was a slave state.
  5. 10. Powerful forging device powered by steam
  6. 13. Treaty which ended the Mexican War; Mexico recognized Texas as part of the U. S. and the Rio Grande as the border between the nations
  7. 15. invented the power loom
  8. 18. Name of the first steamboat to travel the Mississippi River; from Pittsburgh to New Orleans
  9. 19. Built the cotton gin
  10. 20. Invented the steam engine
  11. 21. Officer in the Mexican-American war; Lead General of Union forces during Civil War; 18th president of the United States
  12. 22. War lasting from 1846-1848
Down
  1. 1. A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire.
  2. 3. perfected sewing machine
  3. 4. Opened the first textile mill in Rhode Island
  4. 5. Where the Industrial Revolution (First Industrial Revolution) began
  5. 7. Digging of this led to the development of the Steam Engine that could pump water out of extremely deep holes; three times more energy than burning timber
  6. 9. The state where the first Textile Mill sprung up in the United States
  7. 11. Describes how goods were made during the Industrial Revolution
  8. 12. Women, children, and most male workers did not receive these
  9. 14. English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
  10. 16. This person's forces captured Mexico City in September of 1847
  11. 17. Was a captain in the Mexican-American war; later became a general of the Confederate side in the Civil War