Industrial Revolution Review
Across
- 1. Group formed to protect workers’ rights and interests
- 7. Key fossil fuel that powered early factories and steam engines
- 9. Rapid growth of cities due to factory jobs
- 11. Person who invests and takes risks to start a business
- 14. Cartwright’s machine that automated weaving
- 16. Hargreaves’ machine that let one worker spin multiple threads
- 17. Early home-based method of producing goods before factories
- 18. Crowded, poorly built urban housing for workers
- 19. Money needed to start or expand a business
- 20. Transportation system crucial for moving goods and people
- 22. Watt’s improved device that powered factories and transportation
- 23. Social group that grew due to industrial wealth
- 24. First industry to industrialize
Down
- 2. Farming changes that increased food supply before industrialization
- 3. Use of young workers in factories and mines
- 4. Process of fencing common land that pushed farmers to cities
- 5. Economic system based on private ownership and competition
- 6. Workers who destroyed machines they believed threatened their jobs
- 8. Whitney’s invention that sped up cotton cleaning
- 10. Production method where work is divided into sequential steps
- 12. Method of production using machines and centralized buildings
- 13. Identical components that made mass production possible
- 15. Arkwright’s water-powered spinning machine
- 21. Metal used to build machines, tools, and factory equipment
- 22. Energy source that transformed manufacturing and travel