Across
- 2. (1824) a Supreme Court ruling that reinforced the federal government's authority over the states
- 4. system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegragh that used a certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet
- 5. a natural resource that replaced wood as the main source of power
- 6. Elias Howe, a factory apprentice in Lowell, MA first invented this machine
- 8. a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same
- 12. a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
- 14. a small but powerful locomotive that Peter Cooper built in 1830
- 16. workers' organizations that try to improve working conditions
- 17. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
- 18. the use of waterpowered textile mill that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
- 19. the tools used to produce goods or to do work
- 20. a blacksmith that developed a steel plow in 1837 to replace the iron plow all his friends were using
Down
- 1. a new harvesting machine that Cyrus McCormick developed in 1831
- 3. invented a large spinning machine called the water frame in 1769
- 7. system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800s in which whole families were hired as workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks
- 9. the first full-sized U.S. commerical steamboat, developed by Robert Fulton and tested in 1807
- 10. the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation
- 11. a machine perfected by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires
- 13. the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands
- 15. cloth items