Across
- 2. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
- 3. water powered textile Mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms.
- 6. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
- 8. cloth items.
- 9. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
- 11. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.
Down
- 1. parts of a machine that are identical.
- 4. the first full sized commercial steamboat.
- 5. a device that could send information over wires across great distances.
- 7. slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
- 8. the tools used to produce items or to do work.
- 10. workers refusing to work until employers meet their demands.