Industrial Revolution

2. Networks of iron rails that were used to transport goods.
6. Many children worked on farms, small businesses mills and factories.
7. An economic system based on private ownership of capital
10. An organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions
11. 1760's; James Watt; engine powered by steam that could pump water from mines 3X as quickly as previous engines

1. Along with Robert R Livingston, put the first steamboats into service in 1807
3. Communication by transmitting signals over a wire.
4. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
5. A system in which society, owns and controls the means of production.
8. The drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920.
9. A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793