Across
- 2. The British government passed laws to encourage this in the 1700s
- 4. The process of crop planting that restores soil nutrients
- 5. Person who organizes, manages, and takes risks in a business
- 9. Invented by Eli Whitney to speed cotton seed removal
- 11. This type of movement bought large farms and forced small farmers to become tenants
- 13. The person who improved roads with drainage and a smooth surface
- 17. Large waterway created to improve transportation in Britain
- 21. The process of developing machine production of goods
- 22. The act of moving goods across water via steam-powered boats
- 23. British engineer who improved the steam engine in 1765
Down
- 1. The British engineer who built the first locomotive for the Liverpool-Manchester line
- 3. The increased number of people moving to cities for work
- 6. A machine that combined features of spinning jenny and water frame
- 7. An invention that sped up cloth-making, invented in 1787
- 8. The innovation that used waterpower to drive spinning wheels
- 10. A layer of large stones used to improve roads
- 12. Invented by Jethro Tull, it allowed seeds to be sown in rows at specific depths
- 14. The country where the Industrial Revolution first began
- 15. The invention that doubled a weaver’s work in a day, made by John Kay
- 16. The first successful steamboat built by Robert Fulton
- 18. The type of power that early factories relied on before steam engines
- 19. Early form of transportation that used steam power on rails
- 20. The British inventor of the flying shuttle
