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