Across
- 2. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
- 5. the first full-sized commercial steamboat
- 8. parts of a machine that are identical
- 9. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- 10. the tools used to produce items or to do work
- 11. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
- 12. when workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands
Down
- 1. the effecient production of large numbers of identical goods
- 3. strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
- 4. system that employed young unmarried women from local farms
- 6. another word for cloth items
- 7. a device that could sent information over wires across great distances
