Ashmita Penkala's Chapter #14 Study Guide

Edit Answers
123456789101112131415161718192021
Across
  1. 2. The effect that “_____ power” had on factories was that factories could be built anywhere but by water.
  2. 4. Inventors of sewing machine, made mass production of clothing possible; big bucks.
  3. 6. Inventor of the lightweight steel plow, helped to plow fields at a faster pace.
  4. 10. Cotton _______ were in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and South Carolina and this region was called the Cotton Kingdom.
  5. 12. Inventor of the Cotton Gin, an “engine” of “gin” that cleaned the product by pulling it apart and removing the seeds; can do the work of 50 people and the effect it had on the southern economy was that it made them richer.
  6. 14. In 18__ there were 0 bales of cotton produced and about 500 slaves in the US.
  7. 15. Early railroads become more useful around 1829 because they were a better mode of ______.
  8. 17. Inventor of mechanical reapers which could make working with hand tools go quicker.
  9. 21. Inventor of the telegraph which helped communicate easier.
Down
  1. 1. ______ ships made it possible to “win a large share of the world’s sea trade in 1840’s and 50’s” before steam ships replaced them.
  2. 3. About a total of 290___ immigrants came to US in 1850.
  3. 5. So many immigrants came to the US from Ireland because of ____ and about 1.5 mil of them came here.
  4. 7. This country sent about 50, 000 immigrants to the US in 1850.
  5. 8. In __50 there were about 2,000 bales of coton produced and about 2,000 slaves in the US.
  6. 9. During 18__ the most immigrants arrived in the US.
  7. 11. This European country had about 1 million of their people arrive in the US around the same time.
  8. 13. The “_____ lines” concentrated; parts of the US and specific cities that became major hubs were Cincinatti, New York and Chicago.
  9. 16. Another advancement concerning rails that made railroads safer and faster was that they built sturdier _______.
  10. 17. This crop was the one that the Industrial revolution increased demand for.
  11. 18. Most railroads in the 1800s were built in the ______.
  12. 19. Removing ____ by hand was the difficult/troublesome/time-consuming part of harvesting.
  13. 20. Many workers in Northern factories were ________, and about 4 million of them arrived in the 1840’s and 50’s.