Across
- 7. a blacksmith who created the steel plow design
- 10. New England entrepreneur whose ideas completely changed the textile industry in the Northeast
- 14. Lowell’s practice of hiring young unmarried women to work in his mills
- 15. a skilled British mechanic who could build better textile machines
- 16. a system in which dots and dashes are used to stand for each letter of the alphabet
- 17. a device that could send information over wires across great distances
- 21. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel
- 22. a steamboat that could travel up the Hudson River with no trouble
- 23. a mill worker who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
- 24. the tools used to produce items or to do work
- 25. cloth items
Down
- 1. Supreme Court ruling that said the federal government had authority to regulate trade between states
- 2. Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
- 3. the developer of a new harvesting machine called a mechanical reaper
- 4. an inventor with an idea for mass-producing guns
- 5. a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production
- 6. the inventor of the telegraph
- 8. an American inventor who tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat in the United States
- 9. an American who built the Tom Thumb, a small, steam-powered railroad locomotive with great power and speed
- 11. union workers’ refusal to work until their employers met their demands
- 12. an inventor who made improvements in the design of the sewing machine
- 13. parts of a machine that are exactly the same
- 18. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
- 19. groups of skilled workers that tried to improve members’ pay and working conditions
- 20. an inventor who patented a large spinning machine, called the water frame, that ran on water power and created dozens of cotton threads at once