Machines Enter the Workplace

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Across
  1. 3. The complete control of the production or sale of a good or service by a single firm
  2. 5. The Queen of England who's reign became known as the Victorian Age, reigned from 1837 to 1901
  3. 6. Voting rights
  4. 10. An English minister that invented the water powered loom in 1785
  5. 11. Process of planting one crop one year and another the next
  6. 13. Combinations of corporations
  7. 14. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items
  8. 16. A poor English weaver that invented the spinning jenny in the 1760’s
  9. 18. A system in which men and women work in their homes
  10. 19. The economic system in which individuals rather than governments control the factors of production
  11. 20. Political party made up of large landowners and others who opposed reform
  12. 21. Became England's prime minister in 1868 and passed the Education Act of 1870
  13. 24. A business organization in which individuals buy shares of stock, elect directors to decide policies and hire managers, and receive dividends according to the number of shares they own
  14. 25. An act passed by parliament in 1833 which allowed for factory inspection and enforcement of child labor laws
Down
  1. 1. Act passed in 1870 which created a national elementary education system allowing children of the working class to receive an elementary education for a small fee which later became free
  2. 2. Invented the flying shuttle in 1733
  3. 4. The process of forcing air through molten metal to burn out impurities that made the metal brittle
  4. 7. An English engineer that perfected a steam-propelled moving engine in 1814
  5. 8. Queen Victoria's favorite prime minister of England, prime minister in 1668 and from 1874 to 1880
  6. 9. Basic resources necessary for industrialization, Great Britain had all three
  7. 12. The use of automatic machinery to increase production
  8. 15. A system where employed workers gather in one place to produce a specific good
  9. 17. A law passed in 1911 that gave members of the House of Commons a salary of 400 pounds a year
  10. 22. Political party made up of some Radicals and more liberal members of the Tories
  11. 23. A bill passed in 1832 that took seats in the House of Commons away from the less populated boroughs and property qualifications for voting