Across
- 5. Improved communication, allowed business to check prices and supply
- 8. Made the harvesting of grain much faster
- 10. Thing could be made easier, cheaper, and fixed faster
- 12. A time period where the U.S. is changing from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
- 13. Population shift from rural to urban areas
- 14. Help improve river travel especially upstream, reduced cost of shipping goods
Down
- 1. Removed the seeds from cotton fiber
- 2. was an important invention because it allowed cities & railroads to grow with cheap steel.
- 3. Spread quickly in cities due to poor sanitation
- 4. This is a result of the air and water in cities being filled with smoke
- 6. Artificial waterway that connected the Great Lakes with Atlantic Ocean, reduced cost of shipping goods
- 7. This invention brought a shift from hand-made to machine-made products
- 9. were important to the expansion of the US because they moved people & goods across the US.
- 11. Helped farmer open up more land to plant more acres