Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 2. federal law forbidding businesses from monopolizing a market or limiting free trade
  2. 9. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
  3. 11. instant communication(ex.morse code)
  4. 12. Manufacturing process made steel production more efficient and cheaper
  5. 16. control of product or service
  6. 18. "Gospel of Wealth"
  7. 19. was an American inventor and patent draftsman.
  8. 22. a system where people and businesses decide what to produce and buy, based on their own interests and needs.
  9. 24. who co-founded Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller and transformed Florida with his railroads and hotels.
  10. 27. were brothers who changed aviation history with their first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight in 1903.
  11. 29. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
  12. 30. The banking guy
  13. 31. was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
  14. 32. the first free child of former slaves, on a Louisiana plantation in 1867.
Down
  1. 1. electricity, mass production, and electrical power
  2. 3. was a biracial Surinamese-American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes
  3. 4. is an agreement that allows a person (trustor) to give legal responsibility of their estate to another person (trustee) for a receiving third party (beneficiary).
  4. 5. Greatest inventor of this time
  5. 6. was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines.
  6. 7. a self-taught inventor and entrepreneur who improved public safety with his inventions.
  7. 8. a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
  8. 10. was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry,
  9. 13. The man with the oil trust
  10. 14. is a legal entity that can act like a person in business, law, and taxation
  11. 15. a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other
  12. 17. bringing together many firms in the same business
  13. 20. all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
  14. 21. was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it.
  15. 23. gaining control of all steps that it takes to create a product
  16. 25. a retailer that offers goods for sale through catalogs, which, along with the ordered merchandise, are delivered via the mail service
  17. 26. was an American entrepreneur and inventor. She was one of the first known African American women to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885 for her cabinet bed.
  18. 28. The idea to make something better