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2. integration Purchchases other companies to reduce the number of competitors
4. severe and long-term economic decline
7. Company managed by members of a board rather than by owners or stockholders
8. Part of a normal buisness cycle
9. process Workers forced air through molten pig iron to remove impurities
11. a license that would give someone the right to sell and make an invention
13. company Controlling a company
15. practice of growing only one crop
16. Record player in 1877
18. Decrease in prices
20. Companies or groups of people that invest in a business and then share its profits

1. A machine that transmitted messages along connected wires
3. commerce Act Establishing a commission to investigate complaints and sue companies that violated its regulations
5. A secondary business
6. compensation Worker that had been injured could receive assistance
10. Exclusive control over the steel industry
12. journalists who expose misconduct by an organization or a person
14. Darwinism Wealthy individuals who represented th fittest of humans
17. integration Control of all phases of production from start to finish
19. barons businessmen who sought to buy out their competitors and who conspired to set prices