Industrial Revolution
Across
- 3. new inventions; the science of industry
- 4. to use
- 7. animal food
- 8. a group of animals distinguished by particular characteristics
- 9. action in one's own interest, rather than in another's
- 15. an economy based on industry, not agriculture
- 16. a person who runs a business, taking the risk in order to make a profit
- 17. unproductive; inadequate in performance
- 19. a supply of workers
- 20. an increase in the world's temperature
Down
- 1. animal droppings used to fertilize land
- 2. land held to be used by everyone
- 3. to sow seeds by throwing them over a field by hand
- 5. a layer of gas above the Earth's surface that protects human beings from harmful rays of the sun
- 6. the right to vote
- 10. the essential materials needed in an industry to make a product
- 11. a complete change in something; the overthrow of a government
- 12. in the language of colonialism the colonizing power was often referred to as the "mother" country-- a sexist reference no longer in use
- 13. an act forbidding anyone except members of the Church of England from holding political office or entering the professions
- 14. money used to invest in business
- 18. to feed on growing plants, such as grass
- 21. world-wide