Industrial Revolution Crossword
Solve 18 Industrial Revolution clues — steam engine, factory, urbanization, capitalism, and more. Each completed word unlocks an encyclopedic definition.
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Industrial Revolution: How the Modern World Was Built
The Industrial Revolution (1760s–1840s) transformed human society more rapidly than any previous change in history — shifting populations from farms to factories, creating new social classes, enabling mass production, and laying the technological foundations of the modern world.
Steam Power and Technology
The steam engine (Watt, 1769) was the era's transformative technology — powering factories, locomotives, and steamships, mechanizing production and enabling unprecedented economic growth.
Factory System and Labor
Factories replaced cottage industries, concentrating workers in large buildings with machines. Child labor, 16-hour days, and dangerous conditions characterized early industrialization before labor reform movements improved conditions.
Urbanization
Industrial cities grew explosively — London doubled in size 1800–1850. Workers crowded into slums without sanitation, creating public health crises (cholera epidemics) that eventually forced governments to provide clean water and sewers.
Economic and Social Impact
Industrialization created capitalism as we know it, the middle class, the working class, and eventually socialism and communism as responses. It also fueled imperialism as industrial nations sought raw materials and markets worldwide.