Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 1. John Deere & the steel ____
  2. 2. _____ canal provided the first major link between the East & West
  3. 4. _____ cut shipping costs by 90% for farmers
  4. 6. Spread of cotton increased _____
  5. 8. Transportation lowered cost to ship _____
  6. 9. 1840, millions of Irish & Germans immigrated to the U.S.
  7. 11. Cyrus McCormick & the mechanical _____
  8. 13. Lowell managers hired young, single ____ to work & live at the factory
  9. 15. __________ reduced travel time
  10. 17. New ______ allowed the North,South,and West develop specialized economies
  11. 18. Canals & ______ helped connect the West & East
  12. 19. South provided 75% of the worlds _____
Down
  1. 1. Slaves worked on _______
  2. 3. ______ became the greatest transportation network in America
  3. 5. The Lowell Mill in Massachusetts was the most famous ______ mill
  4. 7. Growth in factories in the North led to an increase in _____
  5. 10. Cotton increased plantation _________ in the South
  6. 12. Samuel Slater was the Father of the American ______ system
  7. 14. Cotton ___ made cotton easy to refine & very profitable
  8. 16. Eli Whitney had many major ________