Chapter 18 Sections 1, 2, & 3 Vocabulary

4. a center offering help to the urban poor
5. the rapid growth of city populations
6. unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
8. a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
9. he was a poor Scottish immigrant who worked his way up in the railroad business and then entered the steel industry, which he was very successful in
15. he wanted to build a device that would carry the human voice, and in 1876 he was able to send the first telephone message to his assistant Mr. Watson
17. to get rid of
21. a building divided into many tiny apartments
23. they tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and the longest flight on the day they tested was only 59 seconds
24. a manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt

1. to increase in speed
2. a group of corporations run by a single board of directors
3. a business owned by many investors
7. someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
10. a place where people receive medical treatment, often for free or for a small fee
11. a reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers and she opened a settlement house in Chicago
12. he formed a new union called the American Federation of Labor, or AFL, and they soon replaced the Knights of Labor as the leading union in the country
13. to purify or to make free from impurities
14. to change or to make different
16. he is an American manufacturer who made the automobile available to millions of people
18. the system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
19. to give good reason for an action
20. he was the son of a peddler in New York who invested in an oil refinery, and he formed the Standard Oil Trust
21. “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
22. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product