Industrial Revolution Review

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