Vocab

3. barons power business leaders who controlled the major railroads
6. money or assets needed to fund a project
7. a person who starts and operates his or her own business
9. gauge the distance between the rails agreed upon by all railroad companies, 4' 8.5
10. a group of companies joined by a legal agreement, designed to reduce competition
13. bargaining negotiation between employer and workers over wages and benefits
14. a joining together, merging to make whole
16. a business organization with specific business powers, duties, and responsibilties
19. a person who invests in a company by buying stock
21. T early Ford car
22. discount given as a partial refund

1. the people who do work
2. a factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy
4. a payment made from a company's profits to people who own stock in the company
5. of production resources like labor and materials that are used to produce goods
8. production the manufacturing of large amounts of a product by machines in a factory
9. a person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
11. a situation in which a single person or company controls all the means of creating or selling a certain type of product
12. a market share of a business or company
15. an order, a legal order forbidding something
17. a group sharing in some activity
18. line factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task
20. the combining of two companies into one