Across
- 5. Disease that destroyed Ireland's potato crops
- 7. The rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution
- 9. Movement of Irish people to the US and Canada after famine
- 12. Key invention that powered machines and transportation
- 16. Group of laborers employed in factories and mines
- 17. Common in growing cities due to migration for jobs
- 21. Tools and devices that increased production speed
- 23. Period of major technological and social change beginning in the 1700s
Down
- 1. Nickname for London’s polluted Thames River in 1858
- 2. Problem described by Charles Dickens in Hard Times
- 3. Dirty air and water caused by industrial waste
- 4. Period of mass starvation in Ireland in the 1840s
- 6. Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
- 8. Economic idea meaning “hands off” government policy
- 10. Social class that grew as a result of industrial wealth
- 11. Replaced the domestic system; where goods were mass produced
- 13. Symbol of industrial towns spewing smoke into the sky
- 14. Country devastated by the potato famine during this period
- 15. Overcrowded, unsanitary housing for workers
- 18. Public health improvement that reduced disease in cities
- 19. Major textile material produced in factories
- 20. Kids working long hours in unsafe factory conditions
- 22. Contaminated rivers and caused cholera outbreaks