Across
- 2. A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves in 1765
- 5. A spinning machine with the capacity of several hundred spindles using waterpower
- 7. British laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business people over skilled artisans
- 9. The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive
- 11. Theory suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above subsistence level
- 12. Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in N. England in 1811, smashing new machines that were putting them out of work
- 14. English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten
Down
- 1. A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner
- 3. A term first coined in 1799 to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion
- 4. Awareness of belonging to a distinct social and economic class whose interests might conflict with those of other classes
- 6. A breakthrough invention that burned coal to produce steam
- 8. The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, made of glass and iron
- 10. English laws passed from 1802-1833 that limited the workday of child laborers and set minimum hygiene and safety requirements
- 13. A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries