Creeping Mechanization, Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine, Marvels in Manufacturing Workers and "Wage Slaves"
Across
- 1. / multiplied the power of human muscles in the modern factory system
- 4. work force- descendants of the settlers did not want to work in smelly factories when the could work on their own land in fresh air and sunlight
- 7. / agricultural, methods of transportation, and communication
- 8. / exceed the value of the output of farms in the nineteenth century
- 9. / these people were the labor workers to operate machines. These workers were hard to find until immigrants began to pour ashore in the 1840's.
- 10. Buren / pres in 1840
- 11. / Had a monopoly of the textile machinery
Down
- 1. Slater / father of the factory system
- 2. manufacturing / maintains friendly & close relationships
- 3. / Competition was difficult against these manufactures because America had difficulty producing goods of high enough quality and cheap enough cost to compete with their mass-production abilities.
- 5. v Hunt / Protected labor unions
- 6. Gin / (Eli Whitney's) made it possible harvest cotton quickly and separate seeds from cotton
- 9. / big part of mechanizing of the US
