Industrialization Vocabulary

2. An inventor who used electricity in various ways and invented the light bulb.
4. A business owned by investors who buy shares of stock
8. A company that has completed control over an entire industry
9. A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
10. Belief that the “survival of the fittest” theory decided which people would succeed in business and life in general.
12. A period of rapid growth in machines in manufacturing and production starting in the mid 1700s
17. An inventor of the telephone and telephone service.
20. An organization of workers joining together to work for better wages, shorter hours and better working conditions.
21. A person who starts and organizes a business venture

1. (ex. Mechanical Reaper)
3. Workers acting together to negotiate with management
5. Buying out or merging withcompeting companies in the same industry
6. Captain of Oil Industry
7. Exclusive right to make or sell inventions, allowed inventors to protect their inventions from being stolen by others
11. Reduced labor needs and increased overall
13. Captain of Railroad and Shipping Industry
14. Captain of the Automobile Industry
15. A place where workers labored long hours underpoor conditions for low wages.
16. Another word for countryside (or agricultural) and low populated area.“Outside of town”
18. Another word for city or densely (highly)populated area. *many buildings
19. Captain of the Steel Industry