Impact of Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• child labour: young people working in mills and mines
• legislation: a legal solution to some of the issues caused by the ind. rev.
• workhouse: a place where poor people worked for a bed and food
• luddites: people who smashed machinery in protest when their jobs were taken
• socialism: belief in a more equal distribution of wealth and resources
• pollution: contaminated air and water due to factories
• slums: poor areas of overcrowded cities
• sanitation: improving living conditions by removing rubbish and sewage
• sewers: pipe systems that disposed of waste-water
• long hours: factories didn't have clocks so that people didn't know they were working ....
• reformers: people who tried to make conditions better by legislation, charity or other means
• mines act: legislation (1842) that prohibited women and children from working underground
• ten hour act: legislation that capped the number of hours people could work in a textile factory
• hurrier: someone who pulled a coal car through the mine
• trapper: someone who opened ventilation doors in mines
• life expectancy: how long people lived on average; improved over the ir
• over looker: man in charge of others in the factory
• scavenger: children who crawled under machines to get loose bits of cotton
• piecers: children who repaired broken threads on machines
• poor law: legislation that established workhouses for the poor and unemployed
• trade union: people from a similar trade who negotiate for better conditions
• chartists: petitioners wanted universal male suffrage, secret ballots etc.
• property: something you had to own to vote or be a member of parliament until late 1800's
• owen: robert ?, factory owner for better working and living conditions, education for children
• shafts bury: earl of ??? who promoted passing of laws for better working and living conditions