Chapter 13 Terms + People

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Across
  1. 3. an arrangement in which businesses making the same product agree to limit production to keep prices high
  2. 4. a labor union that included workers of any trade, skilled or unskilled
  3. 8. small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouses
  4. 11. a system of consolidating many firms in the same business to lower production costs
  5. 14. a process for purifying iron resulting in strong, lightweight, steel
  6. 18. Leader of the American Railway Union who eventually became a Socialist
  7. 22. an oil tycoon who made deals with railroads to increase his profits
  8. 23. a policy which allowed businesses to operate under minimal gov. regulation
  9. 24. an inventor and creative genius who received more than 1,000 patents for new inventions
  10. 27. a steel tycoon who used vertical integration to increase his power
Down
  1. 1. a form of group ownership in which a number of people share the ownership of a business
  2. 2. a poor English immigrant who formed the AFL, a skilled workers union, in 1886
  3. 3. communities near workplaces where housing was owned by the business and rented out to employees
  4. 5. An 1892 Pennsylvania steelworkers' strike that resulted in violence between company police and strikers
  5. 6. an economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income
  6. 7. systems that depended on machinery to turn out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively
  7. 9. negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions
  8. 10. people who invest money in a product in order to make profit
  9. 12. the practice of gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development
  10. 13. A labor protest in Chicago in 1886 that ended in dozens of deaths when someone threw a bomb
  11. 15. a grant by the federal gov. giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
  12. 16. an application of Charles Darwin's work which held that wealth was a measure of one's inherent value and those who had it were the most "fit"
  13. 17. complete control of a product or service
  14. 19. a situation in which companies assign their stick to a board of trustees, who combine them into a new organization
  15. 20. A nationwide strike in 1894 of rail workers that halted railroads and mail delivery
  16. 21. Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally
  17. 25. American Federation of Labor, a loose organization of skilled workers from many unions devoted to specific crafts or trades
  18. 26. twenty-four zones around the world, one for each hour of the day