Industrial Revolution Vocab
Across
- 5. Compartments in a canal where water levels are raised or lowered
- 7. An invention that removes seeds from cotton fiber in an efficient and timely manner invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney
- 8. A 363 mile-long artificial waterway constructed by New York across the state from Albany to Buffalo at Lake Erie
- 12. A person who was hired by Robert Livingston to build a more powerful steamboat
- 14. Roads that require money to access them
- 15. A system where all stages of production of an object are brought into one place to boost efficiency
- 18. A boat powered by a steam engine
- 19. A period of rapid growth in the production, distribution, and selling of goods
Down
- 1. The place of residence for women who worked at mills
- 2. Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
- 3. A mill company that was the first to put all production stages of textiles into one building
- 4. A boat powered entirely by rowing used to transport goods with a flat bottom
- 6. A term that describes an economy where people are free to purchase, sell, produce, and work whatever or wherever they want
- 9. A vehicle used to transport goods on the trip west powered by oxen and topped with a canvas
- 10. Money; currency
- 11. An inventor’s claim over their creation, giving only them the legal rights over said invention
- 13. A population count that happens every ten years
- 16. An economic system where individuals invest money into companies with the goal of profit
- 17. Parts of a machine that are identical in design thus making assembly and replacement easier