Across
- 3. an arrangement in which businesses making the same product agree to limit production to keep prices high
- 4. a labor union that included workers of any trade, skilled or unskilled
- 8. small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouses
- 11. a system of consolidating many firms in the same business to lower production costs
- 14. a process for purifying iron resulting in strong, lightweight, steel
- 18. Leader of the American Railway Union who eventually became a Socialist
- 22. an oil tycoon who made deals with railroads to increase his profits
- 23. a policy which allowed businesses to operate under minimal gov. regulation
- 24. an inventor and creative genius who received more than 1,000 patents for new inventions
- 27. a steel tycoon who used vertical integration to increase his power
Down
- 1. a form of group ownership in which a number of people share the ownership of a business
- 2. a poor English immigrant who formed the AFL, a skilled workers union, in 1886
- 3. communities near workplaces where housing was owned by the business and rented out to employees
- 5. An 1892 Pennsylvania steelworkers' strike that resulted in violence between company police and strikers
- 6. an economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income
- 7. systems that depended on machinery to turn out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively
- 9. negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions
- 10. people who invest money in a product in order to make profit
- 12. the practice of gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development
- 13. A labor protest in Chicago in 1886 that ended in dozens of deaths when someone threw a bomb
- 15. a grant by the federal gov. giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
- 16. an application of Charles Darwin's work which held that wealth was a measure of one's inherent value and those who had it were the most "fit"
- 17. complete control of a product or service
- 19. a situation in which companies assign their stick to a board of trustees, who combine them into a new organization
- 20. A nationwide strike in 1894 of rail workers that halted railroads and mail delivery
- 21. Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally
- 25. American Federation of Labor, a loose organization of skilled workers from many unions devoted to specific crafts or trades
- 26. twenty-four zones around the world, one for each hour of the day