Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
  2. 8. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.
  3. 10. a device that could send information over wires across great distances
  4. 11. the first full-sized commercial steamboat, called the…
  5. 12. Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks became known as the…
Down
  1. 1. parts of a machine that are identical.
  2. 2. Workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands
  3. 4. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
  4. 5. the tools used to produce items or to do work.
  5. 6. cloth items
  6. 7. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
  7. 9. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods