Chapter 18

2. a place to get treated at
3. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
6. enterprise: when privately owned businesses compete freely
9. the rapid growth of city populations
12. increase in speed.
13. to give good reason for action
16. business with many investors
17. Scottish immigrant that got involved with steel
20. a product that is put together as it moves along a belt.
21. Made the AFL
23. invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
24. unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.

1. someone who makes businesses to make a profit
4. He built the first telephone.
5. Tested the first plane.
7. buildings divided into tiny apartments
8. to get rid of
10. to improve
11. center to help urban poor
13. She made the settlement house.
14. a group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
15. Oil and slashing prices
18. a company that controls most or all of the businesses in a particular industry.
19. to change
22. He was the first person to start manufacturing cars available to millions.