Industrial Revolution Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
  2. 5. Workers on _______ refuse to work until employees meet their demands.
  3. 6. The first full sized commercial steamboat.
  4. 7. Based on powered textile Mills that employed young, unmarried woman from local farms. The system includes a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
  5. 8. This reached the Supreme Court in 1824, the Court reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states.
  6. 10. Cloth Items
  7. 11. The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
  8. 12. Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
Down
  1. 1. This became Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
  2. 2. different combinations of dots dashes that represent each of the alphabet.
  3. 3. A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.
  4. 9. A device that could send information over wires across great distances.
  5. 10. The tools used to produce items or to do work.