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- 2. This invention allowed factories to keep operating after dark.
- 6. These children would open and close ventilation doors in mines up to 14 hours a day.
- 8. This invention made it easier to communicate across long distances
- 13. Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine could remove cotton seeds from plants.
- 14. This invention could be used to make tunnels and mines, or for explosives in war
- 17. This could happen when there was a build up in flammable gasses in a coal mine.
- 18. The form of transport that allowed people to travel longer distances in shorter time.
- 19. The Industrial Revolution began in this century.
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- 1. The name given to the job in which women and children would carry coal to the surface of the mine, often in small carts.
- 3. The Mines C_________ in 1842 made it illegal for boys under 10 years old to work in coal mines.
- 4. During the Industrial Revolution, most people moved from country to ___________
- 5. Young boys could be employed as this.
- 7. A ___________ would climb on running textile machines to remove loose cotton.
- 9. Mad made rivers for transporting goods more efficiently.
- 10. A form of power before electricity.
- 11. You would have to pay this if you had a window in your house
- 12. The job that most people had before the Industrial Revolution
- 15. A disease common in the Industrial Revolutions that was caused by drinking contaminated water.
- 16. Families would often have to live in this many rooms