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