Across
- 2. or cloth items
- 4. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
- 6. the tools used to produce items or to do work
- 7. workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands
- 8. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
- 9. was based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
- 10. Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Down
- 1. which reached the Supreme Court in 1824, the Court reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states.
- 3. the first full-sized commercial steamboat
- 4. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- 5. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s