Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. spinning machine powered by water used to produce cotton more rapidly and in greater quantities.
  2. 5. machine designed for weaving.
  3. 6. major highway where drivers typically pay a fee to use it.
  4. 8. increase in the population of a city/town as a result of people moving from rural areas to urban ones.
  5. 10. introduction of machines into a process, activity or place.
  6. 11. machine that uses steam and heat pressure to create mechanical motion.
  7. 14. vehicle driven by steam or electricity that runs on rails and is used to pull trains.
Down
  1. 1. large amount of production of the same product.
  2. 3. Scottish inventor and engineer who created the steam engine.
  3. 4. development of industries in a country.
  4. 7. machine for making fabric powered by steam, water or electricity rather than by hand.
  5. 9. multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton.
  6. 12. machine used to separate cotton from its seeds.
  7. 13. American inventor and engineer who revolutionized the cotton industry through his inventions.
  8. 15. small business or manufacturing activity performed in people’s house.