Chapter 18

2. The rapid growth of city populations.
3. D. Rockefeller Most hated and admired figures of his time. Bought oil companies.
4. bargaining negotiation of wages and working conditions by employees.
5. Graham Bell He built the first version of a telephone.
7. house A center offering help to the urban poor.
10. An arrangement that allows a third party to hold assets.
11. The ownership and control of a trade or service.
13. Something legal that is separated from its owners.
14. enterprise A system that privately owns businesses.
16. To make free of impurities.
17. To speed up, or go faster.
19. and Orville Wright Tested a gas powered plane. They flew the first planes.
20. To get rid of something.
23. line A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt.
24. Ford American manufacturer, made automobiles available to millions. Introduced the assembly line.

1. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
3. To give a good reason for an action.
6. Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit.
8. Edison “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
9. To change something.
12. Carnegie He helped build the steel industry, turned poor men into rich men.
15. Addams A reformer who worked hard for city dwellers and opened Hull house.
18. A smaller doctors office.
21. Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
22. Gompers Longest serving president of the federation.