Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle
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- 3. was transformed from a cottage industry to a highly mechanized one where workers were present only to make sure the carding, spinning, and weaving machines never stopped.
- 4. Process The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
- 6. A method of manufacturing that emerged in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
- 9. The effectiveness of communication between two distant people, points, and businesses.
- 10. Large groups of workers, usually in a similar trade or profession, that join together to protect the workers' rights.
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- 1. First was invented as a pump in the 1690s, a host of inventors tweaked designs and tinkered with machinery until an efficient and powerful alternative to muscle, water, and wind power.
- 2. A historic spinning machine that was invented during the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.
- 5. Usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
- 7. By the mid-19th century, the United States supplied 61 percent of the world's raw cotton.
- 8. Boy A coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker.