Chapter 18 Sections 1, 2, & 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the rapid growth of city populations
  2. 3. d. rockefeller he was the son of a peddler in New York who invested in an oil refinery, and he formed the Standard Oil Trust
  3. 4. bargaining unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
  4. 5. graham bell he wanted to build a device that would carry the human voice, and in 1876 he was able to send the first telephone message to his assistant Mr. Watson
  5. 7. house a center offering help to the urban poor
  6. 10. a group of corporations run by a single board of directors
  7. 11. a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
  8. 13. a business owned by many investors
  9. 14. enterprise the system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
  10. 16. to purify or to make free from impurities
  11. 17. to increase in speed
  12. 19. and orville wright they tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and the longest flight on the day they tested was only 59 seconds
  13. 20. to get rid of
  14. 23. line a manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
  15. 24. ford he is an American manufacturer who made the automobile available to millions of people
Down
  1. 1. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
  2. 3. to give good reason for an action
  3. 6. someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
  4. 8. edison “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
  5. 9. to change or to make different
  6. 12. carnegie he was a poor Scottish immigrant who worked his way up in the railroad business and then entered the steel industry, which he was very successful in
  7. 15. addams a reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers and she opened a settlement house in Chicago
  8. 18. a place where people receive medical treatment, often for free or for a small fee
  9. 21. a building divided into many tiny apartments
  10. 22. gompers he formed a new union called the American Federation of Labor, or AFL, and they soon replaced the Knights of Labor as the leading union in the country