The Industrial Revolution
Across
- 2. started buying clothes from stores rather than making their own clothes
- 5. device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber
- 8. became an incredibly important part of early American industry development
- 9. obtained cotton from America and manufactured it into cloth
- 11. people who made everything by hand
- 13. noticed that iron plows did not work well on the rich soil in the Midwest during 1836
- 14. sold doubled each decade after 1800, known as "King Cotton"
- 15. replaced the horse and mule-powered barges on the canals, the most popular way to travel on rivers by 1830
- 16. connected the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest in the United States
- 19. allowed farmers to plant crops and prepare land amazingly fast rate in the Northeast
- 20. developed the first successful steam engine used in a train in England during 1804
Down
- 1. made guns using interchangeable parts in 1796
- 3. is a simple wooden contraption that allows its operator to spin several threads at once
- 4. often operate machines because they can move them easier
- 6. completed to the Pacfic coast
- 7. a part that is pre-made and stored somewhere
- 10. ended up having the highest concentration of millionaires in the country
- 12. made the first trip in a steamboat in 1807
- 17. made the cotton gin to separate seeds from cotton in America
- 18. had been declining in profitability, but the cotton gin changed this