Chapter 18 Sections 1, 2, and 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. enterprise The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
  2. 6. A reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers.
  3. 9. To purify; make free from impurities.
  4. 11. Bell The inventor of the telephone.
  5. 12. The rapid growth of city populations.
  6. 13. A business owned by many inventors.
  7. 16. To change; to make different.
  8. 18. A center offering help to urban poverty.
  9. 19. A Jewish Immigrant who formed a new union called the American Federation of Labor.
  10. 21. bargaining Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
  11. 22. To increase in speed.
  12. 23. An American manufacturer who made the automobile available to millions.
  13. 24. People who tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Down
  1. 1. To give a good reason for an action.
  2. 2. “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
  3. 4. To get rid of.
  4. 5. A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
  5. 6. The son of a peddler in New York who invested in an oil refinery.
  6. 7. A place where people receive medical treatment, often for free or for a small fee.
  7. 8. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
  8. 10. Someone who sets up a new business to make profit.
  9. 14. A poor Scottish immigrant who worked his way up in the railroad business.
  10. 15. Buildings divided into many tiny apartments.
  11. 17. line A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt.
  12. 20. A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.