Invention, Industry and Immigration

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Across
  1. 2. a covered wagon pulled by horses that traveled short distances.
  2. 4. the period of time when the Untied States went from producing goods by hand to producing goods made by machines.
  3. 7. small island located in New York harbor.
  4. 8. people who stopped stagecoaches at gunpoint and robbed the passengers.
  5. 10. a railroad that runs across the entire continent; built across the United States in the 1860s.
Down
  1. 1. a 19th century company that delivers mail on horseback.
  2. 3. telegraph code that used a system of dots and dashes.
  3. 5. a machine that originally allowed people to speak to each other over a system of wires.
  4. 6. a big building separated into small apartments.
  5. 9. a machine that sent coded messages across wires.