industrial Revolution Menu
Across
- 5. based on water-powered textiles mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
- 7. workers that refused to work until employers meet their demands
- 8. a device that could send information over wires across great distances
- 9. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
- 10. the efficient production or large numbers of identical goods
- 11. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
- 12. slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Down
- 1. parts of a machine that are identical
- 2. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- 3. cloth items
- 4. first full-sized commercial steamboat
- 6. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation