Unit 2 Crossword
Across
- 3. helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
- 6. an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests
- 8. inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
- 12. secret workingmen's organization
- 15. violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers
- 17. the exclusion of employees by their employer from their place of work until certain terms are agreed to
- 18. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 20. a large company that has or attempts to gain monopolistic control of a market.
- 21. a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy
- 22. protest
- 23. a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
- 24. a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest
- 28. an economic system in which production and prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses
- 30. violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886
- 33. He built up a fortune in the steel industry in the US
- 35. a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
- 37. a federation of North American labor unions, merged in 1955 with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- 39. Invented folding cabinet bed
- 41. the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
- 42. contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
- 43. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
- 44. landmark U.S. law that banned businesses from colluding or merging to form a monopoly
- 45. invented the lubricating oil cup, which allowed railroad steam engines to be greased without having to stop the train, which saved time and money
- 46. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
Down
- 1. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
- 2. a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc
- 4. developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures
- 5. the process of acquiring or merging with competitors, leading to industry consolidation
- 7. the first method discovered for mass-producing steel.
- 9. submarine communications cable
- 10. created the railway air brake
- 11. his invention of an automated shoe laster in 1883
- 13. the capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares
- 14. known as the Technological Revolution
- 16. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 19. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars
- 25. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
- 26. the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
- 27. He founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870
- 29. Invented traffic lights
- 31. He invented a method for transmitting speech electrically and gave the first public demonstration of the telephone in 1876
- 32. a political theory advocating the abolition of hierarchical government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.
- 34. invented “Hair Care Products”
- 36. self-made millionaire and industrialist who co-founded the Standard Oil Company
- 38. the action or process of innovating
- 40. reorganized several major railroads and financed industrial consolidations that formed the United States Steel, International Harvester, and General Electric corporations.