Chapter 18 Sections 1, 2 & 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 6. To improve something
- 8. Inventor and creator of the telephone.
- 10. A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
- 13. A place set up to help people similar to a hospital
- 15. Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
- 16. An American manufacturer who made the automobile available to millions
- 17. carnegie One of the giants of big business, who was a poor Scottish immigrant that worked his way up in the railroad business
- 18. Speed up
- 19. A reformer who worked hard to help poor city dwellers
- 20. To defend something
- 22. A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
- 23. Businesses owned by many investors
- 24. Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
- 25. “Invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
Down
- 1. Two brothers who created the first working airplane.
- 2. A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
- 3. The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
- 4. The rapid growth of city populations
- 5. A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
- 7. Creator of the AFL
- 9. To get rid of
- 11. To change something
- 12. One of the giants of big business, who was the son of a peddler in New York, and at 23 he invested in an oil refinery and used the profits to buy other oil companies
- 14. A center offering help to the urban poor
- 21. A process in which unions negotiate with management for workers as a group