Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Samuel Slater was the Father of the American ______ system
  2. 4. Lowell managers hired young, single ____ to work & live at the factory
  3. 7. 1840, millions of Irish & Germans immigrated to the U.S.
  4. 8. South provided 75% of the worlds _____
  5. 9. Transportation lowered cost to ship _____
  6. 10. __________ reduced travel time
  7. 12. The Lowell Mill in Massachusetts was the most famous ______ mill
  8. 13. Spread of cotton increased _____
  9. 14. ______ became the greatest transportation network in America
  10. 15. _____ canal provided the first major link between the East & West
  11. 16. _____ cut shipping costs by 90% for farmers
  12. 17. Cotton ___ made cotton easy to refine & very profitable
Down
  1. 1. Canals & ______ helped connect the West & East
  2. 3. Cotton increased plantation _________ in the South
  3. 5. John Deere & the steel ____
  4. 6. Eli Whitney had many major ________
  5. 10. New ______ allowed the North,South,and West develop specialized economies
  6. 11. Slaves worked on _______
  7. 14. Cyrus McCormick & the mechanical _____
  8. 16. Growth in factories in the North led to an increase in _____