Chapter 18 Section 1, 2 & 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 4. An area to provide small houses for an increase of people in the city.
- 6. A Scottish born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited for the first practical telephone.
- 8. she founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919. She was born on September 6, 1860.
- 9. change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
- 11. was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company.
- 12. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
- 15. Helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835.
- 16. an arrangement whereby a person holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.
- 17. The founder of the Stand Oil Company. Became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born in 1839.
- 19. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.
- 20. “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
- 22. a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
- 23. An economic system in which private business operates in competition and is largely free of state control.
- 24. show or prove to be right or reasonable.
Down
- 1. A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items progressively assembled.
- 2. Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
- 3. American inventors and pioneers of aviation. They achieved one of the first flights with a powered controlled airplane.
- 5. He shifted the primary goal of American unionism away from social issues and issues of wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions. All of which could be negotiated through collective bargaining.
- 7. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
- 10. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- 13. the concentration of human populations into discrete areas.
- 14. increase in amount or extent.
- 18. remove impurities or unwanted elements from a substance, typically as part of an industrial process.
- 21. completely remove or get rid of something.